Eye of the Needle (1981)
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.
- Date of release
- 1981-07-24
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (269)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Richard Marquand
Casting
- 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
- Barbara Graley — David's Mother
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