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Eye of the Needle (1981)

Director: Richard Marquand

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From Time Out Film Guide

Sutherland, a Canadian, plays a German who is pretending to be an Englishman, and makes a convincing job of it. At the outset seeming to be an old-fashioned World War II spy thriller, with its steam trains, fog, lacquered advertisements and Bulldog Spirit, this keeps up with the times by also offering a string of sudden 'necessary' murders, a half-severed hand, a ration of naked top-half bed-thrashing, and a hopeless, vicious triangle relationship. The war is ultimately reduced to three people, stranded on a rain-soaked Scottish island. But the drama remains strangely unengaging: we soon realise that the legless (in both senses) ex-Spitfire pilot is going to have to go, and though the hysterical, bullet-ridden climax is impressive, we know that there can be only one survivor. On an afternoon as wet as those on the island, the film would pass the time agreeably, nothing more.

Author: JC 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • Alex said...
    Posted on Mar 29 2009 07:28 Was the gun left behind by purpose.
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  • david2008 said...
    Posted on Aug 17 2008 09:52 Good start means happy end.the life is beautiful my friend.
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Cast & crew

Director: Richard Marquand

Producer: Stephen J Friedman

Cast: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen, Alex McCrindle, Stephen MacKenna full cast

Genre(s): Action/Adventure

Duration: 113 mins


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