Sony Pictures Classics | THE DUKE | Behind the Scenes Featurette with Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren @SonyPicturesClassics | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 minutes ago.
Go behind the scenes of #TheDuke with Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. Opens in NY & LA April 22. Everywhere May 6.
THE DUKE is set in 1961 when 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 Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge – a startling revelation of how a good man set out to change the world and in so doing saved his son and his marriage.
#TheDuke #BehindTheScenes #SonyPicturesClassics
Go behind the scenes of #TheDuke with Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren. Opens in NY & LA April 22. Everywhere May 6.
THE DUKE is set in 1961 when 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 Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge – a startling revelation of how a good man set out to change the world and in so doing saved his son and his marriage.
#TheDuke #BehindTheScenes #SonyPicturesClassics
