Lilies of the Field(1963)

NRComedy, Drama1h 34m

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

Overview

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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Status: Released

Budget: $247,000Revenue: $7,000,000

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Top Billed Cast

  1. Sidney Poitier

    Sidney Poitier

    Homer Smith

  2. Lilia Skala

    Lilia Skala

    Mother Maria

  3. Lisa Mann

    Lisa Mann

    Sister Gertrude

  4. Isa Crino

    Sister Agnes

  5. Francesca Jarvis

    Francesca Jarvis

    Sister Albertine

  6. Pamela Branch

    Pamela Branch

    Sister Elizabeth

  7. Stanley Adams

    Stanley Adams

    Juan Acolito

  8. Dan Frazer

    Dan Frazer

    Father Murphy

  9. Bobby Driscoll

    Bobby Driscoll

    Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)

  10. Ralph Nelson

    Ralph Nelson

    Mr. Ashton (uncredited)