The Duke - A priceless true story

Directed by Roger Michell

With Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren

Doors and Bar open at 7:00 pm

Film will start at 7:30 pm with an interval.

Entrance £5-00. Tickets available at the shop, the village hall and on the door.

The Duke is a 2020 British comedy-drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. Dealing with the 1961 theft of Goya’s painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode. It was Michell's final film before his death on 22 September 2021.
In 1961, 60-year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. An uplifting true story about a good man who set out to change the world and managed to save his marriage.