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The Duke

I could afford a license myself, it was about principle of the thing

I could afford a license myself, it was about principle of the thing

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I could afford a license myself,
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it was about principle of the thing.
Duration
4 seconds
Views
47
Timestamp in Movie
01:13:28
Uploaded
May 08, 2025
Genres
biography, comedy, drama
Production
Pathé,Ingenious Media,Neon Films,Screen Yorkshire

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Movie Summary

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
I've just finished reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - The Duke 00:08
I've just finished reading Joseph Conrad's Heart...
But I got distracted and found myself on a South Shields beach. - The Duke 00:05
But I got distracted and found myself on a South Shields bea...
I was on my own, exhausted, - The Duke 00:06
I was on my own, exhausted,
But I had faith, - The Duke 00:05
But I had faith,
I knew some nosy buggerer would see a pair of clothes on the beach - The Duke 00:06
I knew some nosy buggerer would see a pair of clothes on the...
Conserved my energy - The Duke 00:06
Conserved my energy
An hour later - The Duke 00:06
An hour later
You know, as a milkman I mean. But there's good and bad in all of us. - The Duke 00:04
You know, as a milkman I mean. But there's good and bad...
It's you that makes me me and it's me that makes you you. - The Duke 00:05
It's you that makes me me and it's me that makes y...
Look, on my own I'm a single brick. - The Duke 00:04
Look, on my own I'm a single brick.
But you put a lot of bricks together, you get a building, - The Duke 00:06
But you put a lot of bricks together, you get a building,
How did you apply this thinking to your own struggle? - The Duke 00:05
How did you apply this thinking to your own struggle?
You can't help the dead but you can be inspired by them. - The Duke 00:04
You can't help the dead but you can be inspired by them...
Some of them kids that this country sent out to France and Belgium in 1914 came back. - The Duke 00:05
Some of them kids that this country sent out to France and B...
They are over 65 now. Pension has been not two pennies to rub together. - The Duke 00:05
They are over 65 now. Pension has been not two pennies to ru...
And isolation - The Duke 00:07
And isolation
So what you grandly call my philosophy, that "I'm you, you're me" thing - The Duke 00:09
So what you grandly call my philosophy, that "I'm ...
This nation, this country - The Duke 00:05
This nation, this country
MARIAN BUNTON 1930-1946 - The Duke 00:11
MARIAN BUNTON 1930-1946
I've seen that the government was paying out a 140 000 pounds for this painting. - The Duke 00:06
I've seen that the government was paying out a 140 000 ...