Event Type: Film
The Duke
DATE:
Sunday 27 March
TIME:
4PM
PRICE:
£10, £6 under 16, £26 Family of four
DESCRIPTION:
The true story of a taxi driver who held a Goya portrait to ransom to force the Government to spend more on care from the elderly.
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, 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.
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