The Duke stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in a comedy about a crime that baffled a nation: the 1961 theft of a Goya painting from London’s National Gallery — by a 60-year-old pensioner.
On August 21, 1961, a mystery thief broke into London's National Gallery and made off with Francisco Goya's Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, a painting recently acquired by the British Government to the then-cool tune of 140,000 British pounds. Baffled authorities assumed the robbery to be the work of master criminals; little did they know the culprit was a 60-year-old pensioner from Newcastle by the name of Kempton Bunton. Or so he led everyone to believe.
‘Despite being constantly beaten down by the world, Kempton was an eternal optimist and an activist,’ director Roger Michell said in press notes. Broadbent is the heart and soul of the film as Bunton, the boisterous Newcastle pensioner who's the very definition of a 'character'. A war veteran, autodidact and wannabe playwright, he's also an anti-establishment agitator and self-styled champion of the common people, much to the chagrin of his — what else — long-suffering wife, Dorothy .
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