Eye of the Needle
To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.
Overview
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
- Revenue
- $18,000,000
- Production
- Kings Road Entertainment, Juniper Films
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Cast
Donald Sutherland
Faber
Kate Nelligan
Lucy
Ian Bannen
Godliman
Christopher Cazenove
David
Faith Brook
Lucy's Mother
Barbara Ewing
Mrs. Garden
David Hayman
Canter
Alex McCrindle
Tom
Philip Martin Brown
Billy Parkin
Stephen MacKenna
Lieutenant
George Belbin
Lucy's Father
Rupert Frazer
Muller
John Bennett
Kleinmann
Sam Kydd
Lock Keeper
John Paul
Home Guard Captain
Richard Graydon
Home Guard Private
Michael Mellinger
Portuguese Man
Allan Surtees
Colonel Terry
Don Fellows
American Colonel
Rik Mayall
Sailor #2
Crew
- Director
- Richard Marquand
- Writers
- Stanley Mann
- Producers
- Stephen J. Friedman
- Cinematography
- Alan Hume
- Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
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Wuchak
April 27, 2023
**_To kill and love during WW2 with Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan_** A German spy in Britain (Sutherland) has strategic info on the D-Day landing in 1944. As he tries to elude the authorities, he stumbles on a couple living remotely near the coast (Nelligan and Christopher Cazenove). Will he make it out? Who will live and who will die? "Eye of the Needle” (1981) is a war drama/thriller, but not a conventional war movie. The plot has similarities to “The Eagle Has Landed” (1976) with …