The Duke.

The Resource The Duke.
Label
The Duke.
Statement of responsibility
a Sony Pictures Classics release ; Pathé, Ingenious Media & Screen Yorkshire present ; a Neon Films production ; produced by Nicky Bentham ; screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman ; directed by Roger Michell
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  • eng
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Set in 1961, when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge--a startling revelation of how a good man set out to change the world and in so doing saved his son and his marriage to Dorothy Bunton
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Mike Eley ; editor, Kristina Hetherington ; music, George Fenton
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R; for language and brief sexuality
Language note
English dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
LC call number
PN1997.2
LC item number
.D87 2022
PerformerNote
Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Jack Bandeira, Aimée Kelly, Charlotte Spencer
Runtime
95
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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