Lilies of the Field (1963)
04/06/1963
Comedy, Drama
1h 34m
- 72% (191 votes)
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Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
Overview
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
- Ralph NelsonDirector
- James PoeScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$247,000
Revenue
$7,000,000
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- nun
- arizona
- homelessness
- farm life
- chapel
- racism
- desert
- construction worker
Top Billed Cast
Sidney Poitier
Homer Smith
Lilia Skala
Mother Maria
Lisa Mann
Sister Gertrude
Isa Crino
Sister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis
Sister Albertine
Pamela Branch
Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams
Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer
Father Murphy
Bobby Driscoll
Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Ralph Nelson
Mr. Ashton (uncredited)
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