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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.
CinemaSerf
May 27, 2023 · via TMDB
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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Julie Andrews
Judith Farrow
Omar Sharif
Feodor Sverdlov
Anthony Quayle
Jack Loder
Dan O'Herlihy
Fergus Stephenson
Sylvia Syms
Margaret Stephenson
Oskar Homolka
General Golitsyn
Bryan Marshall
George MacLeod
Celia Bannerman
Rachel Paterson
Roger Dann
Colonel Moreau
Kate O'Mara
Anna Skriabina
Constantine Gregory
Dimitri Memenov
John Sullivan
1st KGB Agent
Alexei Jawdokimov
Igor Kalinin
Janet Henfrey
Embassy Section Head
Maurice Binder
Main Title Designer
Freddie Young
Director of Photography
Blake Edwards
Director
John Barry
Original Music Composer
Blake Edwards
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