Overview Lucy Rose lives with her crippled husband and young son on the remote Storm Island off the coast of Scotland. Directed with considerable flair by Richard Marquand, this adaptation of Ken Follett's best-selling novel boasts one of Sutherland's best performances. After a confrontation, Henry kills David by pushing him over a cliff. None of these experiences fully explains his ruthlessness, but then perhaps it is just a spy's job to be ruthless. Henry kills several more military personnel and police officers while attempting get back to Germany. The movie ends with Nelligan regarding a man who is either a treacherous spy or an unloved child, take your choice. Discovering that the invasion is to take place on Normandy, Sutherland scurries to rendezvous with a U-boat off the treacherous Isle of Storms.
The old master film composer Miklos Rozsa even provides a score in the grand tradition. Advertisement The plot is part espionage, part cliff-hanger. This one stars , as the kind of introverted psychopath who should inhabit only black-and-white movies, although the color here is sometimes gloomy enough to suffice. Some people will find the movie slow going. Lucy's strained relationship with her disabled husband leaves her vulnerable to Henry's charms. Romance soon develops between Lucy and the spy, but Lucy's husband begins to suspect Faber's true identity. NetflixReleases is an unofficial site for Netflix fans.
Does he grow fond of her? Cinematography Original Music Written by based on the novel by Produced by Directed by Reviewed by We're all familiar with this kind of thriller -- over shots of fresh-faced troops moving off to war, a portentous scrolling text tells us about the desperate situation of London -- and the Free World -- as Hitler's Luftwaffe threatens. A couple of years later, Henry is able to get close enough to an allied airfield to see that it is a merely bogus set up. Eye of the Needle attracts many viewers by its interesting content. We learn things about him that he may not even know about himself, and that is why the film's final scene is so much more complex than it seems. . Lucy is in a loveless marriage with David, who is now a bitter, wheelchair bound drunk.
But he's stuck with a young woman and her crippled husband, which soon brings some troubles. A ruthless German spy who goes by the name of Henry Faber is on his way back home from England after gathering information about the D-Day invasion for Hitler. A ruthless German spy who goes by the name of Henry Faber Donald Sutherland is on his way back home from England after gathering information about the D-Day invasion for Hitler. Kate also uncovers Henry's deception, and attempts to thwart his transmissions to Germany from the local lighthouse. And the woman, frustrated by her husband's drunkenness and refusal to love, becomes attracted to the stranger. Lucy and Henry embark on an affair, which is soon discovered by David. En route to a rendezvous with a U-boat at a remote island, Faber is stranded by a violent storm and forced to seek shelter with Lucy Kate Nelligan , a sexually frustrated.
It is effective, I think, to develop a plot like this at a deliberate pace, instead of rushing headlong through it. Having already been seen spying for the Nazis in 1979's The Eagle Has Landed, Donald Sutherland once more infiltrates wartime England on behalf of Der Fuhrer in Eye of the Needle. But before the final standoff, he pretends to be merely a lost sailor. He arrives at the home of David and Lucy, who along with thier young son Jo Jonathon Haley live on the island. They used to star or. Lucy's strained relationship with her disabled husband leaves her vulnerable to Henry's charms.
Lucy is injured in the accident but David loses the use of his legs. Virtually alone on the island, Lucy becomes the last defense against England's total defeat. Lucy is charmed by the handsome stranger and begins an affair with him. His assignment is to personally deliver news of the actual Allied invasion plans to Hitler. The last third of the movie turns into a bloody melodrama, as the Needle kills the husband and the lighthouse-keeper and threatens the woman, first in a psychological way and then with violence.
Netflix is a registered trademark of Netflix, Inc. I preferred to think of it as deliberate. En route to a rendezvous with a U-boat at a remote island, Faber is stranded by a violent storm and forced to seek shelter with Lucy Kate Nelligan , a sexually frustrated housewife, and her husband, a paraplegic ex-fighter pilot Christopher Cazenove. He is more of a dogged functionary. Cast: , , , , , , , Director: Genres: Keywords: , , , , , ,.
As the cold-blooded spy who thinks nothing of plunging a stiletto into anyone who gets in his way, he is positively chilling. This he intends to do with every fiber of his being, and yet we never get the feeling that the this man is a patriotic Nazi. While leaving the church, David races his car at a high speed and goes over an embankment. Willing to kill even the most innocent of bystanders to complete his task, Sutherland manages to remain in Britain until the eve of D-Day in 1944. An accomplished stage actress who has yet to find the screen success that she deserves, Nelligan is excellent as well.
Henry murders several people who get close to uncovering his plans with a stiletto blade, which is his weapon of choice. As played by Sutherland, the Needle is a very lonely man. He kills with a singular lack of passion; this is Jack the Ripper crossed with J. That gives us time to meditate on the character of the Needle, and to ponder his very few, enigmatic references to his own behavior. As Henry awaits a boat for pickup, he is chased to and shot dead by Lucy. Tension mounts in the closing scene as Sutherland races against time to a make contact with the U-boat and b stop Nelligan before she blows the whistle on him. Plus a lush and wondrous music score by.