The Legend of 1900
“An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary”
1998•R•2h 50m•8.2•Released
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Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.
Director
Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer
Giuseppe Tornatore, Alessandro Baricco, Giuseppe Tornatore
Budget
$9M
Revenue
$21M
Languages
English, Italian, French
Studio
Medusa Film
Cast
Tim Roth
Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Max Tooney
Mélanie Thierry
The Girl
Bill Nunn
Danny Boodmann
Gabriele Lavia
Farmer
Clarence Williams III
Jelly Roll Morton
Peter Vaughan
'Pops', the Shopkeeper
Niall O'Brien
Harbor Master
Alberto Vazquez
Mexican Stoker
Luca De Luigi
Neapolitan Stoker
Femi Elufowoju Jr.
Black Stoker
Nigel Fan
Chinese Stoker
Roger Monk
Irish Stoker
Leonid Zaslavski
Polish Stoker
Bernard Padden
Boatswain
Production
Company
Medusa Film
Company
Sciarlò
Producer
Francesco Tornatore
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