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The Duke [DVD]
Title:
The Duke [DVD]
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[DVD] / a Sony Pictures Classics release ; Pathé, Ingenious Media & Screen Yorkshire present ; a Neon Films production ; a Roger Michell film ; directed by Roger Michell ; screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman ; produced by Nicky Bentham.
Uniform Title:
Duke (Motion picture : 2020)
Publication Information:
Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2022]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9786318620994
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2020.

Special features: Making The Duke; theatrical trailer.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: R; for language and brief sexuality.
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Credits:
Director of photography, Mike Eley ; editor, Kristina Hetherington ; music, George Fenton.
Performer:
Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Jack Bandeira, Aimée Kelly, Charlotte Spencer.
Technical Details:
DVD; region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.39:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital.
Language:
English dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Chronological Term:
1900-1999
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