Name: The Legend of 1900
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: 1998-01-01
Duration: 2 h 50 min
Rating: 8.232
Cast: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mélanie Thierry, Bill Nunn, Gabriele Lavia

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The poster features a lone figure walking away from the viewer toward a distant ship under a twilight sky. The colors are rich and dramatic, with deep blues, purples, and warm pinks blending into a mysterious atmosphere. The moon hangs in the sky, casting a soft glow over the scene.

1998 · Movie · 170 min· Updated Oct 2026

⭐8.2

🤢58%

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🌐English,Italian,French· Originally Italian

Rated:R

About

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.

A soulful, piano-pounding energy radiates from a man who has never once stepped foot on dry land. This lyrical odyssey captures the magic of a musical prodigy born amidst the salt and steel of an ocean liner.