Movie · 1998
The Legend of 1900
“An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary”
Released 28 October 1998 170 min Drama / Music More from 1998 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Peter Vaughan
as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
Clarence Williams III
as Jelly Roll Morton
Gabriele Lavia
as Farmer
Niall O'Brien
as Harbor Master
Nicola Di Pinto
Bill Nunn
as Danny Boodmann
Anita Zagaria
Alberto Vazquez
as Mexican Stoker
Pruitt Taylor Vince
as Max Tooney
Tim Roth
as Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Mélanie Thierry
as The Girl
Luca De Luigi
as Neapolitan Stoker
Femi Elufowoju Jr.
as Black Stoker
Nigel Fan
as Chinese Stoker
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The numbers
58years between the oldest and youngest billed
75Peter Vaughan — oldest on the call sheet
17Mélanie Thierry — youngest billed
47average age of the credited cast