Director Roger Michell on Venice Comedy ‘The Duke’: ‘It’s About a Little Man Speaking Truth to Power’
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variety.comDamon Wise In 1961, a daring daylight robbery was committed in London, when Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812-14), recently auctioned for a massive £140,000 ($186,000), was stolen from its new home in the capital’s National Gallery.The story was big news – so big, in fact, that the painting was referenced in 1963’s “Dr.
No,” in a scene where Sean Connery’s James Bond spots it lying about in Dr. No’s lair, as if 007’s notorious adversary were the brains behind the theft.
In real life, however, the mastermind behind this grand piece of larceny was Kempton Bunton, a retired bus driver who returned the painting in 1965, claiming to have stolen it in protest at the rising cost of the TV license for old age pensioners.
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