The Tamarind Seed (1974) on Netflix
PG19742h 5mDramaRomanceThriller
On holiday in Barbados, Home Office assistant Judith Farrow meets Colonel Feodor Sverdlov, a Soviet attaché. British intelligence suspects the attaché of recruiting her.
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Judith Farrow, who works at the British Home Office, takes a holiday in Barbados after her husband's death and the end of an affair with a married Royal Air Force group captain. There she meets Colonel Feodor Sverdlov, a Soviet attaché, and the two are drawn to each other; a local legend about tamarind seeds that take the shape of a hanged slave's head enchants her, while he calls it a fairy tale. Their romance does not go unnoticed. Jack Loder, a British intelligence officer, is convinced Sverdlov means to recruit her and tells her to contact him if Sverdlov gets in touch. Loder also hunts a Russian spy code-named Blue, and he learns of an affair between his assistant George MacLeod and Margaret Stephenson, the wife of the diplomat Fergus Stephenson.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Tamarind Seed (1974)
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- Sir Lew Grade partly financed The Tamarind Seed as one half of a two-movie deal whose purpose was to get Julie Andrews to commit to a TV show; the other film in the deal was Trilby.
- The Tamarind Seed was the first film ever produced by Lorimar Productions, the company's debut feature as a film studio.
- The Tamarind Seed was spoofed by Mad magazine in 1975, where the spy film was retitled The Tommy-Red Seed for the parody.
