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DVD

6 of 6 Copies Available

  • CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection (2 copies)
  • OSHTEMO: Audiovisual Collection (2 copies)
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The Duke

Call Number

  • DVD COMEDY (CEN, OSH, WSQ)

Languages

In English, with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

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

Publication Information

Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2022]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPA rating: R; language and brief sexuality.

Summary

THE DUKE is 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.

Notes

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2020.

Special feature: Making The Duke.

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