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The Duke is a 2020 British comedy drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. It is based on the true story of the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco de Goya .
Feb 25, 2022 · The Duke: Directed by Roger Michell. With Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook, James Wilby. In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
Apr 22, 2022 · By Emily Zemler. April 22, 2022 11 AM PT. London — In 1961, a man snuck into London’s National Gallery and stole Francisco Goya’s painting of the Duke of Wellington. Kempton Bunton, a retired bus...
Apr 22, 2022 · 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 ...
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Apr 22, 2022 · 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.
Feb 25, 2022 · It was his family that stole the famous portrait of Goya's Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
May 28, 2021 · 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 ...
Jun 25, 2021 · THE DUKE Trailer (2021) Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Jim Broadbent Movie© 2021 - Sony Pictures
Directed by the late Roger Michell, this dramatization of the true-life caper of a working-class pensioner stealing a famous portrait and holding it for ransom in exchange...
