The Tamarind Seed
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
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Blake Edwards
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Sir Lew Grade financed the film to secure a two-movie deal that would convince Julie Andrews to star in a new TV series.
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Julie Andrews returned to cinema after a four-year hiatus, with her previous film being the 1970 release Darling Lili.
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From the very first few bars of the opening John Barry theme and the obvious Maurice Binder titles, you could be forgiven for thinking you were about to watch a "Bond" movie... However, what we are presented with is an overly-complicated espionage drama that could very easily trip over it's own feet. A charming and debonaire Omar Sharif is taking a holiday on Barbados where he makes friends with fellow holiday-maker Julie Andrews. As luck would have it - he is a top level Soviet spy and she works for a top UK Home Office civil servant. Anthony Quayle is the British Spymaster convinced he is trying to turn her; Oskar Homolka the Soviet general convinced the contrary in on the cards. Well, it takes quite a long 2 hours of this rather plodding romantic thriller for us to find out which... The last 15 minutes are quite unpredictable, and the cast are all proficient enough - especially a rather untypical role from Sylvia Syms - but the story is just over-padded-out, I'm afraid.
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The Tamarind Seed FAQs
Blake Edwards is the director of The Tamarind Seed.
The cast of The Tamarind Seed includes Janet Henfrey as Embassy Section Head, Terence Plummer as 2nd KGB Agent, Constantine Gregory as Dimitri Memenov, Bryan Marshall as George MacLeod, Alexei Jawdokimov as Igor Kalinin, Sharon Duce as Sandy Mitchell, Omar Sharif as Feodor Sverdlov, Kate O'Mara as Anna Skriabina, Anthony Quayle as Jack Loder, Julie Andrews as Judith Farrow, John Sullivan as 1st KGB Agent, Dan O'Herlihy as Fergus Stephenson, and more.
The duration of The Tamarind Seed is 2h 5 mins.
Yes. You can watch the The Tamarind Seed trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
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The Tamarind Seed was released on 11 Jul 1974.
The Tamarind Seed is listed under Drama, Romance, and Thriller on Fanbiz.
The Tamarind Seed has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 6.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "From the very first few bars of the opening John Barry theme and the obvious Maurice Binder titles, you could be forgiven for thinking you were about to watch a "Bond" movie......"
1. Sir Lew Grade financed the film to secure a two-movie deal that would convince Julie Andrews to star in a new TV series. 2. Julie Andrews returned to cinema after a four-year hiatus, with her previous film being the 1970 release Darling Lili.
