The Tamarind Seed - AI REMASTERED - Spy Thriller HD Movie - Starring Julie Andrews & Omar Sharif

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The Tamarind Seed is a 1974 romantic thriller spy drama film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif. Based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Evelyn Anthony, the film is about a British Home Office functionary and a Soviet-era attaché who are lovers involved in Cold War intrigue. The film score was composed by John Barry.

Plot
After the death of her husband in a fiery car crash, and a failed love affair with married man, Royal Air Force Group Captain Richard Paterson, Judith Farrow, an attractive British Home Office assistant, meets handsome Soviet attaché Colonel Sverdlov while on vacation in Barbados, but their budding personal relationship does not go unnoticed by British intelligence. Judith is enchanted by a story that the seeds of a tamarind tree on a certain plantation take the form of the head of a slave hanged from a tamarind, a tale mocked by Sverdlov. Returning to London, Judith finds a surprise gift from Sverdlov: an envelope containing a tamarind seed.

Convinced Sverdlov is recruiting Judith to be a spy, British intelligence officer Jack Loder has his hands full with a clandestine Russian spy, code-named "Blue", when he learns his assistant, George MacLeod, is having an affair with the wife of a British diplomat, Fergus Stephenson, who is a conduit of state secrets. Loder cautions Judith, who is to contact him if she hears from Sverdlov.

Meanwhile Sverdlov, assigned to the Soviet Embassy in Paris, suspects his boss, General Golitysn, distrusts him, and insists Judith can be recruited as a spy, a story he shares with Judith when he visits her in London. Amidst drumbeat of suspicions on the cusp of betrayal and blackmail, a gaggle of real and possible double-agents abound in a tangled web amidst a budding Sverdlov-Judith love story that could also be a ruse.

Sverdlov pleads with Golitsyn for more time to recruit demure Judith, a ploy that’s wearing thin with the suspicious General. Sverdlov steals the "Blue" file, his bargaining chip with London to get asylum in Canada, and he finagles a romantic stop in Barbados where he is to meet Judith.

Sverdlov eludes an assassination attempt by Golitsyn’s agents at London Airport and meets Judith in Barbados where, sequestered in a beachside bungalow, they eventually consummate their relationship. But the General is hot on Sverdlov's tail and jets in a group of Soviet agents disguised as wealthy businessmen on holiday to attack the bungalow with napalm, an explosive bullet-riddled event that kills most of the agents when British agents intercede. The event reportedly kills Sverdlov, destroys the "Blue" file, and traumatizes Judith, who narrowly escapes with her life.

Loder meets a convalescing and shell-shocked Judith in Barbados where he divulges that newspaper accounts of Sverdlov’s death were a false cover; seconds before the explosion Sverdlov was whisked away to Canada by Loder's assistant, MacLeod. Her doubts dissolve when Loder gives her an envelope that contains a tamarind seed.

Loder now knows "Blue" is Fergus Stephenson, a double agent he can now manipulate with low-grade information for Moscow, until the Soviets eventually believe Stephenson is a double agent against themselves and kill him, Loder postulates.

Later on, in a bucolic Canadian mountain valley, Judith and Sverdlov share a lovers' embrace.

Cast
Julie Andrews as Judith Farrow
Omar Sharif as Feodor Sverdlov
Anthony Quayle as Jack Loder
Dan O'Herlihy as Fergus Stephenson
Sylvia Syms as Margaret Stephenson
Oskar Homolka as General Golitsyn
Bryan Marshall as George MacLeod
David Baron as Richard Paterson
Celia Bannerman as Rachel Paterson
Roger Dann as Col. Moreau
Sharon Duce as Sandy Mitchell
George Mikell as Maj. Stukalov
Kate O'Mara as Anna Skriabina
Constantine Gregory as Dimitri Memenov
John Sullivan as 1st KGB Agent
Terence Plummer as 2nd KGB Agent
Leslie Crawford as 3rd KGB Agent
Alexei Jawdokimov as Igor Kalinin
Janet Henfrey as Embassy Section Head