The Legend of 1900

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19982h 50m

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Overview

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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Tim Roth - Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900' in The Legend of 1900

Tim Roth

Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'

Pruitt Taylor Vince - Max Tooney in The Legend of 1900

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Max Tooney

Mélanie Thierry - The Girl in The Legend of 1900

Mélanie Thierry

The Girl

Bill Nunn - Danny Boodmann in The Legend of 1900

Bill Nunn

Danny Boodmann

Gabriele Lavia - Farmer in The Legend of 1900

Gabriele Lavia

Farmer

Clarence Williams III - Jelly Roll Morton in The Legend of 1900

Clarence Williams III

Jelly Roll Morton

Peter Vaughan - 'Pops', the Shopkeeper in The Legend of 1900

Peter Vaughan

'Pops', the Shopkeeper

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Niall O'Brien

Harbor Master

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Release Date

October 28, 1998

Runtime

2h 50m

Rating

R

Genres

Drama, Music

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