The Duke 2020

The Duke 2020

 MOVIE INFORMATION :

Movie Name: The Duke

Director: Roger Michell

Cast: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Matthew Goode, Anna Maxwell Martin, Jack Bandeira, Aimée Kelly, Joshua McGuire, Charlotte Spencer, John Heffernan, Andrew Havill, James Wilby, Heather Craney, Richard McCabe, Charles Edwards, Sian Clifford, Austin Haynes.

Edited By: Kristina Hetherington

Music By: George Fenton

Distributed By: Entertainment UK

Release Date: 2020-09-04

Release Year: 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Available Language: English

Budget: Not Expose

IMDB: 6.9

Box Office: $14.2 million

Genre Main: Drama

Genre Full: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama.

Filming Company: Screen Yorkshire

Official Site: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11204094/externalsites?ref_=tt_dt_ext#official

Picture Color: color

Sound Mix: N/A

Picture Quality: 720p

File Size: 1GB

Story Line: In 1961, 60-year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. An uplifting true story about a good man who set out to change the world and managed to save his marriage.

In 1961, 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 invested more in care for the elderly -- he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge -- Kempton had spun a web of lies. 

The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage -- how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale. In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from London’s National Gallery. His ransom notes stated that he would return the painting on condition that television should be free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend.

The movie is based on a true, and indeed peculiar caper: the 1961 theft from the National Gallery of a Goya portrait, painted around 1812, of the Duke of Wellington. Jim Broadbent, clearly delighted with his meaty role, plays Kempton Bunton, an enlightened working man in Newcastle on Tyme whose detailed and fervent beliefs concerning the rights of the lower classes and the elderly consistently get him fired from whatever job he manages to procure. (First, he’s a cab driver, then pushing loaves about at a bread factory.) He’s also an amateur playwright. 

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