Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field (1963)

Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...

Comedy Drama

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.

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  • Release Date: 1963-06-04
  • Runtime: 1h 34min
  • Director: Ralph Nelson

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    • Trailer

    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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