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The Duke / Roger Michell (Film director), Richard Bean (Screenwriter), Clive Coleman (Screenwriter), Nicky Bentham (Film producer) [videorecording (DVD)]

Publication details: Culver City, CA, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022.Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cmSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Mike Eley ; editor, Kristina Hetherington ; music, George Fenton.
Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Jack Bandeira, Aimée Kelly, Charlotte Spencer.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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DVD DVD Hanover Public Library Shelves DVDA DUKE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001228288

Originally released as a motion picture in 2020
Special features: Making The Duke

Director of photography, Mike Eley ; editor, Kristina Hetherington ; music, George Fenton.

Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Jack Bandeira, Aimée Kelly, Charlotte Spencer.

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

MPAA rating: R; for language and brief sexuality.

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