Eye of the Needle
The hero is not and cannot be the hero, this is the circle Donald Sutherland cannot quite square in Eye of the Needle, the film that got director Richard Marquand noticed by George Lucas, who gave him the Return of the Jedi gig after watching it. Being British and non-union undoubtedly helped Marquand a fair bit – Lucas was horns-locked with the Directors Guild of America at the time. But both men also shared an admiration for Alfred Hitchcock – there is a read-across from here to the Star Wars franchise. Sutherland plays Faber, an undercover Nazi agent collecting information on the south coast of England as D-Day approaches. Code-named the Needle – because he … Read more