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    ‘The Duke’ unfurls startling real-life Goya heist

    by Peter Rainer Apr 20, 2022 2 minutes

    “The Duke” is a genial British entertainment that, at its best, reminded me a bit of those wonderful postwar Ealing Studio films like “The Lavender Hill Mob” and “The Ladykillers.” The new movie stars Jim Broadbent as the real-life Kempton Bunton, a highly eccentric, 60-something pensioner who, in 1961, improbably helped engineer one of the greatest art heists of the 20th century, making off with Goya’s “Portrait

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