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The Duke / 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.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 58222 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | (container)6577715 | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | (disc)Language: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022, 2020Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Mike Eley ; editor, Kristina Hetherington ; music, George Fenton.
Cast: 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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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD COMEDY DUKE Available 33111009968401
Adult DVD Adult DVD Northport Library DVD COMEDY DUKE Available 33111009968393
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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.

DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.39:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital.

English dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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

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

Originally released as a motion picture in 2020.

MPAA rating: R; for language and brief sexuality.

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.

Special features: Making The Duke.

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