The Duke
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 con...
| Other Authors: | Bean, Richard, 1956- (Screenwriter), Coleman, Clive, 1961- (Screenwriter), Broadbent, Jim (Actor), Mirren, Helen (Actor), Whitehead, Fionn, 1997- (Actor), Maxwell Martin, Anna, 1977- (Actor), Goode, Matthew, 1978- (Actor), Bandeira, Jack (Actor), Kelly, Aimee, 1993- (Actor), Spencer, Charlotte (Actor) |
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| Format: | Videos DVD |
| Language: | English French Spanish |
| Published: |
Culver City, CA :
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
[2022]
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2020. Special features: Making The Duke. |
| Physical Description: |
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: |
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.39:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital. |
| Audience: |
MPAA rating: R; for language and brief sexuality. |
| Production Credits: |
Director of photography, Mike Eley ; editor, Kristina Hetherington ; music, George Fenton. |