Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field (1963)

7.2 94 min Movie
ComedyDrama

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

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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Cast

Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier Homer Smith
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)
Jester Hairston Jester Hairston Homer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)

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