Eye of the Needle (movie)

Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy movie directed by Richard Marquand and starring Donald Sutherland,  Kate Nelligan and Christopher Cazenove. Written by Stanley Mann, it is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Ken Follett.

 Plot 
The movie is about a deadly German Nazi spy named Henry Faber in the United Kingdom during World War II, who discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion and his attempt to return to Germany and tell Hitler about it, so that Nazi Germany stops the invasion from happening. While waiting for a German U-boat to pick him up and return to Germany with the top secret information, he is stranded with a family on the isolated (fictional) Storm Island, off the coast of Scotland. There he spends time with a young woman named Lucy, her bitter crippled husband David who was a RAF fighter pilot before his car accident and their toddler son Joe. He develops an intimate relationship with Lucy, but her husband is already suspicious of this new stranger.

Cast
 Donald Sutherland as Henry Faber
 Kate Nelligan as Lucy Rose
 Christopher Cazenove as David Rose
 Ian Bannen as Inspector Godliman
 Stephen MacKenna as Lieutenant 
 Philip Martin Brown as Billy Parkin
 George Belbin as Lucy's Father 
 Faith Brook as Lucy's Mother 
 Barbara Graley as David's Mother 
 Arthur Lovegrove as Peterson 
 Barbara Ewing as Mrs. Garden 
 Patrick Connor as Inspector Harris
 David Hayman as Canter 
 Alex McCrindle as Tom
 John Bennett as Kleinmann
 Sam Kydd as Lock Keeper 
 John Paul as Home Guard Captain
 Bill Nighy as Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
 Jonathan and Nicholas Haley (twins) as Joe (David and Lucy's son)
 Allan Surtees as Colonel Terry
 Rik Mayall as sailor on train

Production
The Storm Island scenes were shot over eight weeks on the Isle of Mull, in the Inner Hebrides. The rest of the movie was shot in Yateley, Surrey, and in London.

 Reviews 
The movie got very positive reviews from movie critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of critics gave the movie positive reviews.

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Category:1980s spy movies
Category:1981 thriller movies
Category:British spy movies
Category:British thriller movies
Category:English-language movies
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Category:Movies directed by Richard Marquand