Drama

Thriller

Eye of the Needle

Kings Road Entertainment

Juniper Films

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

Deutsch

Donald Sutherland

Kate Nelligan

Ian Bannen

Christopher Cazenove

Faith Brook

Barbara Ewing

David Hayman

Alex McCrindle

Philip Martin Brown

Stephen MacKenna

George Belbin

Barbara Graley

George Lee

Arthur Lovegrove

Colin Rix

Chris Jenkinson

William Merrow

Patrick Connor

Rupert Frazer

Jonathan Nicholas Haley

John Bennett

Sam Kydd

John Paul

Richard Graydon

Michael Mellinger

Allan Surtees

Don Fellows

Stewart Harwood

Rik Mayall

Rory Edwards

Ellis Dale

Bill Fraser

Michael Josephs

John Rees

John Grieve

Bruce White

David Ashton

Bill Nighy

Stephen Phillips

Stanley Mann

Alan Hume

Richard Marquand

Miklós Rózsa

John Comfort

Alec Mills

John Bloomfield

Celestia Fox

Wally Schneiderman

Angela Allen

Beryl Lerman

Valerie Booth

David Farrell

Claude Hudson

Claude Hitchcock

Mark Nelson

Roger Simons

Joan Carpenter

George Gibbs

Ken Pattenden

Ken Softley

Nick Hosker

Jack Lowin

William Lang

Mike Frift

Gerry Humphreys

Anthony Squire

Eddie Stacey

Lee Bolon

Bob Bremner

Wilfred Shingleton

Hugh Scaife

Stephen J. Friedman

John Hoesli

Ken Follett

Sean Barton

Bert Davey

Jennifer Patrick

**_To kill and love during WW2 with Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan_**

A German spy in Britain (Sutherland) has strategic info on the D-Day landing in 1944. As he tries to elude the authorities, he stumbles on a couple living remotely near the coast (Nelligan and Christopher Cazenove). Will he make it out? Who will live and who will die?

"Eye of the Needle” (1981) is a war drama/thriller, but not a conventional war movie. The plot has similarities to “The Eagle Has Landed” (1976) with the same actor as the spy (Sutherland). It’s almost as if they’re the same character. The difference is that “Eagle” features military combat whereas this one is decidedly a spy-on-the-run flick with the thrills thereof.

Like “Eagle,” this is easily one of Sutherland’s top movies. The British scenery is awesome, the palette is colorful, the adventure is compelling, the drama/romance is good and the suspense is off-the-charts in the final act.

There are elements of “The Eagle Has Landed,” “The Heroes of Telemark” (1965) and the later “The House on Carroll Street” (1988). If you like these flicks, this is a must; it’s as good or better than any of ’em.

The film runs 1 hour, 52 minutes, and was shot in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, which is located in southwest Scotland, including Oban, nearby Connel Bridge and the Isle of Mull. Studio stuff was done in England in the greater London area, as well as the airport scene filmed at Blackbushe Airport.

GRADE: A-

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