The Duke

Dir; Roger Michell UK 2020 95 mins


Cast: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, James Wilby, Matthew Goode


The last feature by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) who passed away last year, The Duke recounts a story based on actual events in which a taxi driver, Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent) who stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in 1961. The spirit of the Ealing comedies is alive and well in this unlikely crime caper.

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