The Legend of 1900

1998 · directed by Giuseppe Tornatore

Rating

72/100

Hit

no

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.

The Legend of 1900 (1998), directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, rates 72/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Tim Roth
• Pruitt Taylor Vince
• Mélanie Thierry
• Bill Nunn
• Gabriele Lavia
• Clarence Williams III
• Peter Vaughan
• Niall O'Brien
• Alberto Vazquez
• Luca De Luigi

Crew

• Lajos Koltai — Director of Photography
• Massimo Quaglia — Editor
• Ennio Morricone — Original Music Composer
• Alessandro Baricco — Screenplay
• Giuseppe Tornatore — Screenplay
• Giuseppe Tornatore — Writer

More from Giuseppe Tornatore

1. Cinema Paradiso (1988) — 85/100 · hit
2. Ennio (2022) — 83/100 · hit
3. A Pure Formality (1994) — 77/100
4. The Star Maker (1995) — 73/100
5. Everybody's Fine (1990) — 72/100
6. The Professor (1986) — 71/100

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