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| Eye Of The Needle [1981] | ![Eye Of The Needle [1981]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414QCFZBPFL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Richard Marquand
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen Mackenna, Philip Martin Brown, Christopher Cazenove
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6072
Format: Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Italian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 108 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050070003635
ASIN: B000050GQM
Release Date: January 8, 2001
Theatrical Release Date: July 24, 1981
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 "Hier ist die Nadel --- Kommen!" July 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I return to this film at least once a year, which may be thought a bit sad, but in fact is a testament to its dramatic force. In WW2 London, Donald Sutherland, an Abwehr spy and ex-Kriegsmarine officer, trusted by both Canaris and Hitler, "The Needle" (from his method of disposing of the unwanted...), is uncovered and flees to Western Scotland. On a small island are living crippled ex-pilot Cristopher Cazenove lives, drunken and resentful, with his wife Kate Neligan and their small son. The Needle wants to rendezvous with a U-Boat, in order to transmit in person to Hitler vital information about the likely invasion point in 1944 France.br /br /There are a few weak points in the plot: by 1943-44, the Red Army was already pushing the Wehrmacht aside on the Eastern Front, surely the most important strategic factor of WW2; secondly, the ending, though effective, is slightly less than plausible, though not absurdly so. However, overall, this is a great film for a dull afternoon. The locations and filming are good, albeit that Marylebone Station in London seems to be substituted for 1940's Euston (replaced by something monumentally ugly and architecturally poor by the time this film was made)and one can see the 1960's redbrick hotel (Thistle? Scot? I forget the name but stayed there once) beyond Marylebone, in one --brief-- shot. These are, perhaps, only quibbles, which is why I give the film 5 stars. See it.
 Donald Sutherland does it again... December 12, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For some strange reason, Donald Sutherland has presided over the end of several of cinema's previously sure things - the Alistair Maclean thriller (Bear Island), Neil Simon comedies (Max Dugan Returns), Agatha Christie adaptations (Ordeal by Innocence) and, with Eye of the Needle, the WW2 romantic thriller. After frequent demonstrations of his adeptness with a switchblade, his top nazi spy `The Needle' and his bad English accent are shipwrecked on Storm Island, where Kate Nelligan lives with her crippled husband Christopher Cazenove and their badly dubbed child. While Ian Bannen fritters away on the mainland in lukewarm pursuit before his prey can get away with D-Day secrets, the two leads start an affair before things turn nasty. You'd have thought that after the last time Nelligan played a girl called Lucy who rescued a near-drowned stranger turned out (in 1979's Dracula) she'd have learned her lesson...br /br /Miklos Rozsa delivers a vividly romantic score that is both full of overpowering dramatic drive and in completely the wrong picture (it works better on disc) while Richard Marquand's merely functional direction, wildly overrated at the time because the news had just leaked out that he'd been signed to direct Return of the Jedi (`so he must be good' as one critic profoundly put it before finding out what a botched job he made of that assignment), fails to elevate the picture. The result is one of those films you really want to like much more than it'll let you, entertaining enough but still somewhat disappointingly average. The unimpressive non-anamorphic widescreen transfer that's particularly poor on flesh tones and has a few wobbles and a horribly botched end title that has the score laid on twice out of synchronisation (so you can hear the middle of the cue playing at the same time as the beginning, making for a confused cacophony) on the English soundtrack doesn't help.br / br /The laserdisc release included an alternate ending (barely different from the one used) that's missing from the DVD, although the UK disc does restore the original censor trims to avoid an X certificate - but be warned, it's a mere six seconds of footage! The only extra here is the US trailer which goes to great lengths to hide the fact that the Needle is a spy and the film is set in WW2, instead pitching it as a slasher movie!br /
Externals Operative Fails March 23, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
A highly-trained and well-motivated Canaris Operative works in enemy territory with text-book efficiency, until he permits weakness to interfere with his function.brOur "hero" and idiot- both, deftly portrayed by Canuck Donald Sutherland, performs his mission flawlessly until he lets sentimentality and bloody hormones get in the way of the objective.br(This film is reputedly used by a few Nations' Externals Sections, in order to clearly demonstrate what can happen when such frailties are allowed to manifest themselves.)brSuperb training film. Get it!
Gazza December 30, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excellent wartime thriller with authentic English 1940's war scenes. One of my favourite movies
Finding a needle in a hay stack October 22, 2002
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
There are not enough stars to describe this movie. As with any movie, if the entire book were portrayed, the movie would take eight hours. Therefore they could only show the relevant parts and had to do some voice over action to explain the missing logic. But they did not change the plot or the essence of the plot. And I would not think in a million years that Donald Sutherland would be picked to play Henry Faber. Yet now that I see the movie, He is the only person that could be believable as an attractive aloof German spy. Where did they find Kate Nelligan, who played Lucy so well? The island "Isle of Mull, Scotland, UK" looked just like the book. I am glad this is on DVD, as the as tapes tend to ware out.
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