EYE OF THE NEEDLE (DUAL FORMAT EDITION) - BLU-RAY

The Eye of the Needle (DVD + Blu-ray)
Directed by Richard Marquand

Donald Sutherland (Don't Look Now) and Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides) play star-crossed lovers torn between passion and allegiance in this heart-wrenching World War ll-set thriller, played out against the blitz-scarred 1940s backdrop of England and the windswept hills of the Scottish islands. En route to the Fatherland with secrets that will stop the D-Day invasion, ruthless spy 'The Needle' (Sutherland) finds himself shipwrecked on the remote Storm Island. Here he becomes involved in a perilous affair with the beautiful, but lonely Lucy (Nelligan), who lives there with her bitter, crippled ex-RAF husband, David (Christopher Cazenove). But can the fierce passion of illicit love survive the bitter realities of war?

Special features

• Director Richard Marquand's preferred cut of the film, presented in High Definition and Standard Definition
• Audio commentary by Julie Kirgo, Nick Redman and music historian Jon Burlingame
• Alternate ending sequence, which appeared on the previous UK DVD release
• Donald Sutherland Guardian Interview (1987, 73 mins, audio only)
• Careless Talk Costs Lives: Wartime Warnings (1940, 36 mins): three short wartime propaganda films produced by Ealing Studios for the Ministry of Information
• Theatrical trailer
• Illustrated booklet with full film credits and new writing by Little White Lies essayist Paul Fairclough

UK | 1981 | colour | 112 minutes | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | original aspect ratio 1.85:1 | BD50: 1080p, 24fps, PCM mono audio (48kHz/24-bit), Region B | DVD9: PAL, 25fps, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono audio (320kbps), Region 2 | Cert 15 (strong violence)