

The Legend of 1900
1998-10-28 · 170 min · ★ 8.2
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.
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Production details
- Directors
- Giuseppe Tornatore
- Production companies
- Medusa Film, Sciarlò
- Countries
- Italy
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 9,000,000
- Revenue
- USD 21,057,208
Top Cast
Tim RothDanny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Pruitt Taylor VinceMax Tooney
Mélanie ThierryThe Girl
Bill NunnDanny Boodmann
Gabriele LaviaFarmer
Clarence Williams IIIJelly Roll Morton
Peter Vaughan'Pops', the Shopkeeper
Alberto VazquezMexican Stoker
Femi Elufowoju Jr.Black Stoker
Roger MonkIrish Stoker
Piero Gimondo
Nicola Di Pinto
Anita Zagaria
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