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Director Ralph Nelson
Screenplay James Poe

Lilies of the Field

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

Release Date: 1963-06-04

Duration: 94 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Sidney Poitier
    Homer Smith
  • Bobby Driscoll
    Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
  • Stanley Adams
    Juan Acolito
  • Dan Frazer
    Father Murphy
  • Ralph Nelson
    Mr. Ashton (uncredited)
  • Lilia Skala
    Mother Maria
  • Francesca Jarvis
    Sister Albertine
  • Lisa Mann
    Sister Gertrude
  • Isa Crino
    Sister Agnes
  • Pamela Branch
    Sister Elizabeth