The Tamarind Seed
The Tamarind Seed . . . where love grows and passion flowers.
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
Drama
Romance
Thriller
6.2
51 reviewsRuntime: 125 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1974-07-11
Director(s): Blake Edwards
Production: Jewel Productions, AVCO Embassy Pictures, ITC Entertainment, Lorimar Motion Pictures
Languages: English
IMDB: tt0072253
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CinemaSerf★ 6/105/27/2023
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.