What is Eye of the Needle (movie)?
{{Infobox film | name = Eye of the Needle | image = | alt = | caption = | director = [[Richard Marquand]] | producer = Stephen J. Friedman | screenplay = Stanley Mann | based_on = {{based on|''[[Eye of the Needle (novel)|Eye of the Needle]]''<br>1978 novel|[[Ken Follett]]}} | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Donald Sutherland]] * [[Kate Nelligan]] * [[Christopher Cazenove]] }} | music = Miklós Rózsa | cinematography = Alan Hume | editing = Sean Barton | studio = Kings Road Entertainment | distributor = [[United Artists]] | released = {{Film date|df=y|1981|07|24|U.S.}} | runtime = 112 minutes | country = [[United Kingdom]] | language = [[English language|English]] | budget = | gross = $17.5 million | border = yes }} '''''Eye of the Needle''''' is a 1981 British [[spy movie]] directed by [[Richard Marquand]] and starring [[Donald Sutherland]], [[Kate Nelligan]] and [[Christopher Cazenove]]. Written by Stanley Mann, it is based on the 1978 [[Eye of the Needle (novel)|novel of the same title]] by [[Ken Follett]]. == Plot == The movie is about a deadly German [[Nazi]] [[spy]] named Henry Faber in the [[United Kingdom]] during [[World War II]], who discovers [[wikt:vital|vital]] [[information]] about the upcoming [[Normandy landings|D-Day]] [[invasion]] and his attempt to return to Germany and tell [[Hitler]] about it, so that [[Nazi Germany]] stops the invasion from happening. While waiting for a German [[U-boat]] to pick him up and return to Germany with the [[wikt:top secret|top secret]] information, he is stranded with a family on the [[wikt:isolated|isolated]] ([[fictional]]) Storm Island, off the coast of [[Scotland]]. There he spends time with a young woman named Lucy, her [[wikt:bitter|bitter]] [[Disability|crippled]] husband David who was an [[RAF]] [[Fighter aircraft|fighter]] [[pilot]] before his [[car accident]] and their [[toddler]] son Joe. He develops an [[intima