Eye of the Needle To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not. Release date: 1981-07-24 Genres: Drama, Thriller Actors: Philip Martin Brown, Faith Brook, Barbara Ewing, Colin Rix, Bill Nighy, John Paul, Rik Mayall, Rupert Frazer, George Lee, Bill Fraser, David Ashton, Donald Sutherland, Ian Bannen, John Bennett, Don Fellows, Rory Edwards, Alex McCrindle, David Hayman, Kate Nelligan, John Rees, Sam Kydd, Christopher Cazenove, Stewart Harwood, George Belbin, Michael Mellinger, Patrick Connor, Richard Graydon, William Merrow, John Grieve, Ellis Dale, Chris Jenkinson, Stephen MacKenna, Allan Surtees, Bruce White, Arthur Lovegrove, Barbara Graley, Stephen Phillips, Michael Josephs, Jonathan Nicholas Haley Revenue: $18,000,000 Runtime: 1 h. 48 min. Score: 6.7/10 Votes: 237 Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America Companies: Kings Road Entertainment, Juniper Films Available* : 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.