Eye of the Needle

About Eye of the Needle

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.

Richard Marquand's Eye of the Needle is a 1981 thriller film. At 108 minutes long, it arrived in July 1981.

Its themes are submarine, isolated island, d-day, and cold blooded killer. The film began as a novel.

Donald Sutherland takes the lead as Faber, Kate Nelligan as Lucy, Ian Bannen as Godliman, and Christopher Cazenove as David. The screenplay is by Stanley Mann. It streams on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, and MGM Plus in the United States.

Oppenheimer, The Zone of Interest, and The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society make useful companions to Eye of the Needle, all filed under 1940s, husband wife relationship, and world war ii. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 269 votes and it carries a R rating.