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..."
7.5| 1h34m| NR| en| Drama, Comedy
Storyline

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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  • Lilies of the Field Cast
Sidney Poitier as Homer Smith
Lilia Skala as Mother Maria
Lisa Mann as Sister Gertrude
Francesca Jarvis as Sister Albertine
Stanley Adams as Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer as Father Murphy
Bobby Driscoll as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Ralph Nelson as Mr. Ashton (uncredited)