Best Movies Guide: Why The Legend of 1900 Still Matters

The Legend of 1900 (1998) — an evergreen reference for this movie: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary

Where to watch

TMDB's U.S. watch-provider data lists Amazon Video. Availability changes by country and date, so check your streaming app before watching.

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

About 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.

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