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Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field

Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
Jun 04, 1963 1h 34m
7.3
185 votes

Synopsis

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.

Title Lilies of the Field
Companies Rainbow Productions, United Artists
Countries United States of America
Keywords based on novel or book, nun, arizona, homelessness, farm life, chapel, racism, desert, construction worker
Lilia Skala

Lilia Skala

Mother Maria
Lisa Mann

Lisa Mann

Sister Gertrude
Isa Crino

Isa Crino

Sister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis

Francesca Jarvis

Sister Albertine
Pamela Branch

Pamela Branch

Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams

Stanley Adams

Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer

Dan Frazer

Father Murphy
Bobby Driscoll

Bobby Driscoll

Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Ralph Nelson

Ralph Nelson

Mr. Ashton (uncredited)