The Tamarind Seed

1974 film by Blake Edwards
It was Andrews' first film in four years since Darling Lili. During that time, she had married Blake Edwards and concentrated on raising their children. "This is a nice film," said Andrews, "It's just right for my comeback."

The Tamarind Seed was filmed on location in Barbados, Belgravia (including Eaton Square) in London, and Paris.

The film received a Royal Command Performance.

Lew Grade said the film "did fairly well" at the box office but claims that he struggled to make much money from it because Edwards and Andrews took such a large percentage of the profits (Andrews 10% of the gross, Edwards 5%). This was common practice for a top billed star and writer/director. Murphy writes:
Characteristically, the last bastion of stability and decency resides in the community of two, lovers whose loyalty and commitment to each other may momentarily transcend—but is ultimately and perfunctorily done in by—Cold War games. The games themselves have grown overly familiar and predictably nihilistic: means are expended to achieve ends that possess reality only to those unknown bookkeepers who keep track of the debits and assets of international espionage. The system kills—by moral attrition, or violently, physically—but always the abstraction of international security is best preserved by a terrible and wasteful expenditure of human resources. By debasing the moral coinage that allows men and women to deal with one another with even minimal trust or affection, the world is made safe for well, not people, but something. Murphy concluded that The Tamarind Seed turns this genre of "the community of two" into the genuine article that "shifts and reshapes our thinking and feeling and seeing." In its place, a "new perception of reality" transcends the confines of the movie theater and makes its way into the "larger, less defined, and thus less understandable, territory of our lives."

The film was spoofed in Mad magazine in 1975 as The Tommy Rot Seed.