Eye of the Needle
To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.
1981 · 1h 48m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Richard Marquand
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Eye of the Needle
Overview
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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