Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Stephen MacKenna
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Eye of the Needle
Based on the Ken Follett novel, EYE OF THE NEEDLE is a British movie directed by Richard Marquand in 1981.
Faber is a German spy who passes information to the Nazis from London. He doesn't hesitate to coldly kill everyone suspecting his activity. At the end of WWII, Faber is ordered to come back to Berlin. As he tries to reach the submarine that waits for him near the Scottish coast, his boat is shipwrecked. Luckily, Faber reaches a small island whose sole inhabitants are an English family and the lighthouse keeper.
Faber and Lucy, whose husband is a crippled, will fall in love but when the young woman finally understands the real activity of Faber, she will have to fight for her life while the storm prevents the police from coming to help her.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Eye of the Needle
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 20% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal/victim falls in love with victim/criminal
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- wife/homemaker
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- average (woman)
unclothed?
- chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
