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The Duke is a 2020 British comedy drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. It is based on the true story of the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco de Goya. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode. It was ...
In 1961, the UK was gripped by the theft of a Goya painting from the National Gallery in London — a story being retold in The Duke, in cinemas now.
William is known in the police force as "The Duke" or simply "Duke", a nickname referring to the Duke of Wellington. [9] Eliza's late father Henry saved William from the London streets after arriving from Glasgow as a child, and later mentored him as he trained as a policeman. As a result, William looked up to Henry as a father figure.
The Duke interrupts them; Christian and Satine claim they were practicing lines for a new show, Bohemian Rhapsody. With Zidler's help, Christian, Satine, Toulouse, and Santiago pitch the show to the Duke with an improvised plot about an evil gangster attempting to woo an ingenue who loves a poor sailor ("So Exciting! (The Pitch Song)").
Get Duked! (originally titled Boyz in the Wood) is a 2019 British black comedy film written and directed by Ninian Doff in his feature directorial debut, [3] [4] [5] and starring Eddie Izzard.
Bernard and Doris is a 2006 film directed by Bob Balaban.The teleplay by Hugh Costello is a semi-fictionalized account of the relationship that developed between socialite heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke and her self-destructive Irish butler Bernard Lafferty later in her life.
According to Duke, the film's title is a reference to the funerary tradition practiced in the Caribbean known as the nine nights, where a person is mourned for nine days because it takes their spirit nine days to say goodbye. [10] [11] On June 7, 2019, Duke, Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård, Benedict Wong and David Rysdahl were announced to star. [2]
The passable prose and lackluster plot will limit this one's appeal to diehard fans only." [5] Daniel Matters of Worldly Magazine wrote, "For anyone new to the Dune universe, Dune: The Duke of Caladan is an excellent place to start. Herbert and Anderson’s crisp prose is easy to follow and does just the right amount of world building so that ...