Blu-ray Review

The Duke

Blu-ray

Featured in Issue 263, September/October 2022

Picture
4.5
Sound
4.5
WSR Score
5
Disc Information
Studio Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Catalog Number 58224
MPAA Rating R
Rating Reason Language and brief sexuality
Retail Price $30.99
Disc Type Single Side, Dual Layer (BD-50)
Running Time 95 min
Color Color
Chapters Yes
Closed Captioned Yes
Regional Coding A
Release Date 7/26/2022
Credits
Director Roger Mixhwll
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Disc Soundtrack DTS HD Lossless 5.1
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"The Duke" is set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent), 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 noes 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 son doing, saved his son and his marriage. (Gary Reber)

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