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The Legend of 1900

"An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary"

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R 1998 · 2h 50m
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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.

Theatrical
Oct 28, 1998
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 4, 2002
Box Office
$21.1M
Budget
$9.0M
Return
2.3x
Theaters
1
Director
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Producers
Marco Chimenz, Laura Susanne Ruedeberg
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Medusa Film, Sciarlò
Original Title
La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano
Original Language
Italian
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Imagining Future Moments Together
1900 You'll come visit me Max won't you, on land?
Max Sure, I want you to introduce me to the mother of your children. And invite me to Sunday dinner. I'll bring the dessert and wine, and you'll say how I shouldn't have. And when you're showing me your house, shaped like a ship, no doubt, your wife will be in the kitchen cooking a nice turkey. When we're at dinner I'll say what a wonderful cook she is, and she'll say how you always talk about me.
Confrontation Between Jelly Roll Morton and 1900
Jelly Roll Morton You can stick this up your ass.
1900 You asked for it, asshole.

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