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Title: Eye of the Needle (1981)
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A German spy carrying information that will reveal the target of Operation Overlord becomes involved with the wife of a crippled man on an isolated island off the Scottish coast while he waits to be picked up. Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
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Codename: "The Needle". Only one person can stop him: The woman who loves him ! See more »Parents Guide:
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UKRelease Date:
24 July 1981 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Nålens öga See more »Box Office
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SEK 5,742,895 (Sweden)Company Credits
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["Songbird. This is the Needle. Come."]
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The make and model of Heinrich ("The Needle") Faber (Donald Sutherland)'s motor-cycle was a 1953 Velocette MAC 350. See more »Goofs
In the scene when needle goes to the base where all the mock-ups are, the Jeep the MPs are riding is a Willys Model M-38, which was not manufactured until 1950. See more »Quotes
Faber: [calling on radio to submarine] Singvogel. Hier ist die Nadel. Kommen.["Songbird. This is the Needle. Come."]
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Sutherland was never darker or slicker, Kate Nelligan was never more heroic or attractive, and the outcome of World War Two was never so thoroughly in doubt. Suspenseful all the way, this movie convinces us that the Allied-Axis struggle was determined by the violent, romantic interplay among five people on a storm-tossed British isle. See it!