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Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy film directed by Richard Marquand, and starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan. Written by Stanley Mann, it is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Ken Follett.
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.
Jul 24, 1981 · Eye of the Needle: Directed by Richard Marquand. With Donald Sutherland, Stephen MacKenna, Philip Martin Brown, Kate Nelligan. A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
In his attempts to rendezvous with a Nazi submarine, he's shipwrecked on an isolated island occupied only by a lighthouse-keeper and by a young married couple, a woman ( Kate Nelligan ), her legless husband (Christopher Cazenove), and their son.
Philip Martin Brown. Billy Parkin. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A ruthless German spy who goes by the name of Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland) is on his way back home from England...
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Jun 1, 2024 · Eye of the Needle follows a cast of characters involved in WWII espionage. Donald Sutherland plays Faber, a ruthless German spy known as 'The Needle'. Kate Nelligan is Lucy, a woman who becomes entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse with him.
