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The Legend of 1900
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.
1998 · Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore · 170 min · Drama · Music · 13 frames
Tagline
An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary
Crew
- Screenplay: Alessandro Baricco, Giuseppe Tornatore
- Written by: Giuseppe Tornatore
- Cinematography: Lajos Koltai
- Edited by: Massimo Quaglia
- Music: Ennio Morricone
- Production design: Francesco Frigeri
- Produced by: Francesco Tornatore
Cast
- Tim Roth as Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Max Tooney
- Mélanie Thierry as The Girl
- Bill Nunn as Danny Boodmann
- Gabriele Lavia as Farmer
- Clarence Williams III as Jelly Roll Morton
- Peter Vaughan as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
- Niall O'Brien as Harbor Master
- Alberto Vazquez as Mexican Stoker
- Luca De Luigi as Neapolitan Stoker
Production
- Country: Italy
- Language: English, Italian, French
- Studios: Medusa Film, Sciarlò
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Box office: $21,057,208
- Themes: ship, ocean, musical, ocean liner, child prodigy, pianist, foundling
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