# L'Arme à l'œil (1981)

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**Original title**: *Eye of the Needle*
**Runtime**: 108 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Richard Marquand
**Written by**: Stanley Mann
**Starring**: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove, Faith Brook, Barbara Ewing

> *To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Storm Island lighthouse beam cuts through darkness winter 1944 a lone German spy flees across rocky shores 
ruthless Henry Faber evades MI5 agents on the island 
Richard Marquand helms this tense thriller.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid

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