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The Legend of 1900   1998         R, 124 min. Genre: Drama Director: Giuseppe Tornatore   Cast: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Melanie Thierry, Clarence Williams III, Bill Nunn, Peter Vaughan, Niall O'Brien, Alberto Vasquez, Cory Buck, Easton Gage   The Virginian is an ocean liner on which a worker finds an abandoned baby on 1 January 1900; he keeps the baby and names him Novecento/Nineteen Hundred. Nineteen Hundred (Tim Roth) grows to adulthood aboard the ship and becomes a fine musician—according to Max (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who tells the story. Now, as the ship is scheduled for destruction by explosives, Nineteen Hundred must make one final decision: stay aboard or start a new life ashore.