The Duke

In 1961, 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. What happened next became the stuff of legend.

Cast

Jim Broadbent

as Kempton Bunton

Helen Mirren

as Dorothy Bunton

Fionn Whitehead

as Jackie Bunton

Anna Maxwell Martin

as Mrs. Gowling

Matthew Goode

as Jeremy Hutchinson

Jack Bandeira

as Kenny Bunton

Aimee Kelly

as Irene Boslover

Charlotte Spencer

as Pammy

Heather Craney

as Debbie

Stephen Rashbrook

as Foreman

Reviews

r96sk

Nice to finally watch <em>'The Duke'</em> at the cinema, given it had been delayed from September 2020 and I didn't get around to it during its February 2022 release - managed to catch one of the last few showings this afternoon. I don't usually check out trailers but I did unintentionally see on...

Peter McGinn

Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren are two performers I tend to follow and give any production they are in a try. This is yet another movie based on actual events. I have nothing against that obviously if it is well done, but as someone who writes novels I am sometimes tempted to ask if production compa...

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