Eye of the Needle
To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.
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.
- Director
- Richard Marquand
- Worldwide
- $18M
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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.
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- Worldwide gross
- $18M
- Release date
- Jul 24, 1981
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- German, English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
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