The Duke

1999

Action / Comedy / Drama / Family

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57%
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 604 604

royalty dog

Plot summary

When his nephew tries to wrest control of his estate from him, the Duke of Dingwall removes the boy from his will and leaves everything to his dog.

Director

Philip Spink Photo
Philip Spink

Top cast

Frank C. Turner Photo
Frank C. Turner as Parsnip
Oliver Muirhead Photo
Oliver Muirhead as Cecil Cavendish
Paxton Whitehead Photo
Paxton Whitehead as Basil Rathwood
Judy Geeson Photo
Judy Geeson as Lady Fautblossom
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737.24 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.4 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by IRD

A little on the corny side, but endearing...

In case anyone was wondering what kind of dog Hubert is, he is a Black & Tan Coonhound; the only one of six subspecies of coonhound recognized by the American Kennel Club. Although they were bred to hunt racoons, they are also used for hunting bear and cougar. They have a sweet disposition and make excellent family pets.
Reviewed by braden-jacquot 1 / 10

A Royal Sucking

Friends, beware. This movie is bad. Really bad. Like there are no ways in which this film is not bad. Where shall I begin?Perhaps the camera work? To put it bluntly, the whole movie seems as if it were filmed by a cheap Dollar Tree Kodak smashed to the wall with a piece of moist bubble gum. I got a crick in my neck trying to understand the bizarre angles that these directors evidently thought were "artistic." The acting? Horrific. What back alley did they scour to find these wretched excuses for thespians? If any one of them found a penny on their way to the set, they'd be grossly overpaid. The plot? What plot? The plot had as many holes as the inexplicably pot-hole filled, overused driveway "joke" from the film. It seems as if the directors picked up a cheap copy of The Idiots Guide to Movie Clichés (much of which would have gone over their heads) and utilized every page. Twice. The movie has about as much continuity and clarity as an ADD 5-year-old in a crayon shop. The whole movie makes you feel as if you have just missed a previous scene.I've never witnessed a film where every single character elicited such disgust and revulsion. It's like it didn't let up. They failed at even playing normal human beings. It might as well have been filmed with Martians. I mean, a dog is crowned the Duke of Dingwall. (A fitting name...) And what do the inhabitants of this bizarre little town do (who are so often mentioned and yet so rarely seen, except when portrayed by repeat actors from previous scenes...)? They applaud the whole way!I won't even venture into the awful "sloppy-joe" sequence. Such a banal and iniquitous perversion of the art of cinema should never even have been thought of.In sum, this movie was not worth the 8 seconds it takes to put the DVD into the player. It is a monument to how far a few desperate actors and "filmmakers" will go to make a buck or two. Which is evidently pretty far. Pretty much, the only difference between this film and a bucket of garbage is the bucket.
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