The Duke
Type
Label
The Duke
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Rating: R; for language and brief sexuality
Main title
The Duke
Medium
Blu-ray
Oclc number
1332532135
Runtime
95
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
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
Subject
- Taxicab drivers -- Blu-ray
- Comedy films
- Crime films
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- Portraits -- Blu-ray
- National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) -- Blu-ray
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- London (England) -- 20th century -- Blu-ray
- Fathers and sons -- Blu-ray
- Art thefts + Investigation -- Blu-ray
- Historical films
Content
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor6
- Genre5
- Subject11
- Taxicab drivers -- Blu-ray
- Comedy films
- Crime films
- Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- Portraits -- Blu-ray
- National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) -- Blu-ray
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- London (England) -- 20th century -- Blu-ray
- Fathers and sons -- Blu-ray
- Art thefts + Investigation -- Blu-ray
- Historical films
- Content1
- Actor4
- resource.filmdirector1
- Publisher1
- Mapped to1