
A priceless true story.
In 1961, 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. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
- 7.0
- 2021
- Released
- 1h 36m

Jim Broadbent
Kempton Bunton
Helen Mirren
Dorothy Bunton
Fionn Whitehead
Jackie Bunton
Anna Maxwell Martin
Mrs. Gowling
Matthew Goode
Jeremy Hutchinson
Jack Bandeira
Kenny Bunton
Aimee Kelly
Irene Boslover
Charlotte Spencer
Pammy
Heather Craney
Debbie
Stephen Rashbrook
Foreman
James Wilby
Judge Aarvold
John Heffernan
Neddie Cussen
Alice Stokoe
Woman with Babe
Sarah Annett
Post Office Clerk
Charlie Richmond
PO Official #1
Matt Sutton
PO Official #2
Michael Hodgson
Barry Spence
Richard McCabe
Rab Butler
Andrew Havill
Sir Philip Hendy
Sarah Beck Mather
Press Woman
Cliff Burnett
Wilf
Val McLane
Freda
Will Graham
Office Worker
Claire Lams
BBC Receptionist
Matthew Steer
Passing BBC Manager
Sarah Elizabeth Cotton
Express Receptionist
Michael Gould
Express Editor
Charles Edwards
Sir Joseph Simpson
Sparrow Michell
Agnes Gowling
Sian Clifford
Dr. Unsworth
Sam Swainsbury
DI Brompton
Dorian Lough
DI Macpherson
Joseph Bowler
Factory Worker
Ashley Kumar
Javid Akram
Craig Conway
Mr. Walker
Austin Haynes
Scruffy Little Boy
Michael Mather
Eddie
Sammy T. Dobson
Bakery Assistant
Michael Adams
PC Inverdale
Simon Hubbard
PC Myton
Andy Parker
Goya
Darren Charman
Duke of Wellington
Sharon Facinelli
Bar Lady
Neal Barry
Gallery Security Guard
Joshua McGuire
Eric Crowther
Steve Giles
Mr. Edbury
Philip Gascoyne
Press Photographer (uncredited)













Released
en
$11,000,000.00
- #couple
- #release
Reviews

Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren are two performers I tend to follow and give any production they are in a try. This is yet another movie based on actual events. I have nothing against that obviously if it is well done, but as someone who writes novels I am sometimes tempted to ask if production companies could support screenwriters who write pure fiction a bit more often. But that observation ta

Nice to finally watch <em>'The Duke'</em> at the cinema, given it had been delayed from September 2020 and I didn't get around to it during its February 2022 release - managed to catch one of the last few showings this afternoon. I don't usually check out trailers but I did unintentionally see one for this before a different film and it did look good - and I, now that I've seen it, can confirm











