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Eye of the Needle (1981)
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Before he became the favourite literary figure-about-town of Tony Blair's Labour Party, Ken Follett was just a humble thriller writer. This is a film version of his novel about a lethal Nazi agent who somehow manages to infiltrate the lower reaches of, er, the railway network to obtain D-Day secrets. This might seem an unglamorous base of operations from which to subvert the Allied war effort, but Donald Sutherland as the Nazi keeps the suspenseful story of murder, romance and intrigue on the right track in this entertaining 1980s version of a 1940s spy yarn. PF
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Running time
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108min
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Country of origin
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UK
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Genre
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Second World War Spy Thriller
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Stanley Mann, from the novel by Ken Follett
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Theatrical distributor
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United Artists Corp. Ltd
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UK cinema certificate
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AA
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