The Duke, a Sony Pictures Classics release ; screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman ; directed by Roger Michell
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The Duke, a Sony Pictures Classics release ; screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman ; directed by Roger Michell
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R; for language and brief sexuality
Main title
The Duke
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
1330263484
Responsibility statement
a Sony Pictures Classics release ; screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman ; directed by Roger Michell
Runtime
95
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
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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- National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) -- Drama
- Comedy films
- Fathers and sons -- Drama
- Crime films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- DVDs
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Historical films
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- Portraits -- Drama
- London (England) -- 20th century -- Drama
- Art thefts + Investigation -- Drama
- Taxicab drivers -- Drama
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- National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) -- Drama
- Comedy films
- Fathers and sons -- Drama
- Crime films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- DVDs
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Historical films
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- Portraits -- Drama
- London (England) -- 20th century -- Drama
- Art thefts + Investigation -- Drama
- Taxicab drivers -- Drama
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- Publisher1
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