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Eye of the Needle [VHS] [1981]

VHS ~ Donald Sutherland
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove, David Hayman
  • Directors: Richard Marquand
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL, Colour
  • Language English, German
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • VHS Release Date: 23 Oct 1995
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CIW9
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,251 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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The outcome of World War II is dependent upon one man's ability to stop an important German agent from reporting to Hitler. Popular suspense thriller based on an equally successful novel by Ken Follett.

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finding a needle in a hay stack, 23 Oct 2002
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye Of The Needle [DVD] [1981] (DVD)
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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Donald Sutherland does it again..., 12 Dec 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye Of The Needle [DVD] [1981] (DVD)
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...

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.

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!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gazza, 30 Dec 2005
By John G. Stephens (Brisbane, Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eye Of The Needle [DVD] [1981] (DVD)
Excellent wartime thriller with authentic English 1940's war scenes. One of my favourite movies
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