Bibliograph

The Duke, a Sony Pictures Classics release ; screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman ; directed by Roger Michell

Type

Label

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

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

Classification