A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Director: Richard Marquand
Screenwriter: Stanley Mann
Richard Marquand concocts a classic spy thriller with two great central performances.
Richard Marquand (22 September 1937 - 4 September 1987) was a Welsh film director best known for directing the blockbuster Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983).
as Henry Faber
as Lucy Rose
as Lieutenant
as David Rose
as Billy Parkin
as Inspector Godliman
as Lucy's Father
as Lucy's Mother
as David's Mother
as Constable
Producer: Stephen J. Friedman
Editor: Sean Barton
Casting: Celestia Fox
Director Of Photography: Alan Hume
Original Music Composer: Miklós Rózsa
Costume Design: John Bloomfield
Production Design: Wilfred Shingleton
Source: based on the novel by Ken Follett
Genres: romance, thriller, war
Certificate: R
Categories: world war two, spy, nazi spy, 1940s, u boat, scotland, year 1944, island, storm, british intelligence, secret service, reference to adolf hitler, shipwreck, short wave radio, paraplegic, fake airbase, d-day
Year: 1981
Runtime: 112 min
Country: UK
Language: English, German
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Sound Mix: Mono
The story takes too long to acquire any dramatic sense. This long wait is not compensated by sufficient action or imagination.
A lovely thriller, a gifted and prematurely departed director.
Some people will find the movie slow going. I preferred to think of it as deliberate. It is effective, I think, to develop a plot like this at a deliberate pace, instead of rushing headlong through it.