Eye of the Needle (film)
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| Directed by | Richard Marquand |
| Produced by | Stephen J. Friedman |
| Screenplay by | Stanley Mann |
| Based on |
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett |
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| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | Alan Hume |
| Edited by | Sean Barton |
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Kings Road Entertainment
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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118 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $17.5 million |
Eye of the Needle is a 1981 American spy film directed by Richard Marquand and starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan. It was written by Stanley Mann and based on the novel of the same title by Ken Follett. The film is about a German spy in England during World War II who discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion, and his attempt to return to Germany afterwards while living in the isolated Storm Island, off the coast of Scotland.
A man calling himself Henry Faber is actually a German Nazi spy nicknamed "the Needle" because of his preferred method of assassination, the stiletto. He is a coldly calculating sociopath, emotionlessly focused on the task at hand, whether the task is to signal a U-boat or to gut a witness to avoid exposure. In England, he obtains critical information on the Allies' invasion of Normandy plans. After narrowly escaping a British Intelligence agent in London, Faber tries to make his way to Germany, but is stranded by fierce weather on Storm Island, a place occupied only by a woman named Lucy (Kate Nelligan), her disabled husband David, their son, and their shepherd, Tom. A romance develops between the woman and the spy, due to an estrangement between Lucy and her husband, whose accident has rendered him emotionally crippled as well.
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