Lilies of the Field (1963)

  • NR
  • 10/01/1963 (US)
  • Comedy, Drama
  • 1h 34m

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 Nelson

Director

James Poe

Screenplay

William E. Barrett

Novel

Cast

Sidney Poitier's headshot

Sidney Poitier

Homer Smith
Lilia Skala's headshot

Lilia Skala

Mother Maria
Lisa Mann's headshot

Lisa Mann

Sister Gertrude
Isa Crino's headshot

Isa Crino

Sister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis's headshot

Francesca Jarvis

Sister Albertine
Pamela Branch's headshot

Pamela Branch

Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams's headshot

Stanley Adams

Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer's headshot

Dan Frazer

Father Murphy

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