Eye of the Needle

  • Drama
  • Thriller
7/24/1981
108
R

To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.

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.

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$18,000,000

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  • Wuchak

    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 the same actor as the spy (Sutherland). Its almost as if theyre the same character. The difference is that Eagle features military combat whereas this one is decidedly a spy-on-the-run flick with the thrills thereof.

    Like Eagle, this is easily one of...

    April 27, 2023

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