The Duke
Sixty-year-old self-educated working-class Kempton Bunton appears in Court Number 1 at the Old Bailey, pleading not guilty to charges of stealing Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington and its frame from the National Gallery in London. Six months earlier, in spring 1961, he had sent a script to the BBC from his native Newcastle upon Tyne. Soon afterwards he is jailed at Durham for 13 days for watching TV without a licence. Although he can afford one, he refuses to do so as he is campaigning against pensioners having to pay it, part of his wider strong beliefs about supporting the common man.
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Genre: | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Crime |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Directed By: | Roger Michell |
| Written By: | Clive Coleman, Richard Bean |
| Cast: | Helen Mirren, Sian Clifford, Matthew Goode, Fionn Whitehead, Matthew Steer, John Heffernan, Aimee Kelly, Charles Edwards, Jim Broadbent, Anna Maxwell Martin, Joshua McGuire, Richard McCabe, Charlotte Spencer, James Wilby, Andrew Havill, Sam Swainsbury, Dorian Lough, Craig Conway |
| In Theaters: | Sep 03, 2021 |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 36 minutes |
| Production: | Neon Films, Pathe UK, Ingenious Media, Screen Yorkshire, Great Bison Productions |
| Box Office: | $1,526,970 |
| Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
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