Eye of the Needle (1981)
"To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not."
ThumbScore
👍 73%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 73%
(RT: 85%, MC: 61) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Christopher Cazenove as David
Faith Brook as Lucy's Mother
Barbara Ewing as Mrs. Garden
Alex McCrindle as Tom
Is Eye of the Needle good?
Most people think so. 73% audience score, estimated from 269 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 73%.
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. Wikipedia ↗
