NBMovies Presents: The Duke 12A(Doors open 7pm for bar, film starts 7.30pm)
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The heartwarming tale of a good man, determined to change the world & save his marriage... Cert 12A
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NBMovies presents The Duke. Doors open at 7pm for drinks, film starts at 7.30pm. Please have your eventbrite QR code ready to be scanned at the door.
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In 1961, 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 invested more in care for the elderly - he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television.
What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge - Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage - how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale.
Written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman and directed by Roger Mitchell. © Pathé Productions Limited 2020.
