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MOVIE · 1998

The Legend of 1900

DramaRomance170 min

While trying to sell his prized trumpet, Pruitt Taylor Vince's Max Tooney tells a music-shop owner about 1900, an abandoned infant discovered in the first-class dining room of the ocean liner SS Virginian on New Year's Day 1900. Raised by a boiler-room worker and given the name Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon 1900, Tim Roth is the shipboard prodigy who grows into a pianist of unusual talent, spending his life among the Virginian's decks, engine rooms, and ballrooms as passengers come and go across the Atlantic.

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