Eye of the Needle (1981)
Directed by Richard Marquand
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
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What trips up The Shape of Water is the espionage subplot, which finds Dr. Hoffstetler as a fighter, an "Eye of the Needle" of sorts; as wonderfully as it establishes the time and place as the early days of the Cold War, Sputnik threatening at any moment to drop bombs on grandmothers in Iowa and Kansas, it distracts from scenes where Eliza imagines she's dancing with the Creature like Alice Faye.