The Tamarind Seed

Omar Sharif’s debonair Russian diplomat and a charming Julie Andrews risk an international incident in this captivating Cold War thriller.

  • Director

    Blake Edwards

  • With

    Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Oskar Homolka

  • USA-UK 1974. 125min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    15

Blake Edwards’ understated spy movie charts a romance stymied by the Cold War and finds Barry blending marimbas with sad, insistent strings. Judith Farrow meets Feodor Sverdlov on holiday in Barbados; she is an assistant to a minister in the Home Office, he the Soviet air attaché assigned to a Soviet General. Anthony Quayle and Sylvia Syms provide excellent support to the stars. The score remained unreleased until 2021.

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