Eye of the Needle poster
Screenplay Stanley Mann
Director Richard Marquand

Eye of the Needle

Tagline: To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.

Release Date: 1981-07-24

Duration: 108 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Bill Nighy
    Squadron Leader Blenkinsop
  • Donald Sutherland
    Faber
  • David Hayman
    Canter
  • Rik Mayall
    Sailor #2
  • Kate Nelligan
    Lucy
  • Sam Kydd
    Lock Keeper
  • Ian Bannen
    Godliman
  • Philip Martin Brown
    Billy Parkin
  • John Bennett
    Kleinmann
  • Christopher Cazenove
    David