The Duke

7

United Kingdom

Comedy Drama History

96 min

2021

Craig Conway Philip Gascoyne Will Graham Val McLane Cliff Burnett Michael Hodgson Stephen Rashbrook Heather Craney Sarah Beck Mather Dorian Lough Andrew Havill Sam Swainsbury Richard McCabe Jim Broadbent James Wilby Joshua McGuire John Heffernan Sian Clifford Anna Maxwell Martin Jack Bandeira Charlotte Spencer Aimee Kelly Matthew Goode Fionn Whitehead Helen Mirren

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.