When Faber realizes she knows, he pursues her. However, Lucy soon finds her husband's body on the rocky shoreline and, lying to Faber, manages to flee with Joe. Faber lies to Lucy to explain David's absence, claiming David has been drinking with Tom, as is often the case. When questioned about the film, Faber ruthlessly kills David by throwing him off a cliff, and then Tom as he tries to contact the U-boat with the shepherd's radio. David becomes suspicious of Faber when he discovers he is carrying a film canister.
Tom runs the lighthouse and the island's only two-way radio.Ī passionate romance develops overnight between Faber and Lucy because of the estrangement she has with her husband after a car crash on their honeymoon, which left him confined to a wheelchair, embittered and legless. On the island he meets Lucy, a beautiful young woman her disabled husband, David their young son Joe and an elderly, alcoholic shepherd named Tom, the only other person on the island. Faber heads to Scotland for a rendezvous with a U-boat, but fierce weather strands him on Storm Island. MI5, knowing that Faber's discoveries could foil D-Day, are hounding his every move. While spying in England, he obtains critical information about the Allies' plans for the Invasion of Normandy, but is unable to transmit the information.
Henry Faber is a cold and emotionless German sleeper agent nicknamed "the Needle" because he prefers to kill with a stiletto. The film is about a German Nazi spy in the United Kingdom during World War II who discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion and his attempt to return to Germany while he is stranded with a family on the isolated (fictional) Storm Island, off the coast of Scotland. Written by Stanley Mann, it is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Ken Follett. Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy film directed by Richard Marquand and starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan.
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