Lilies of the Field

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

  • Rated 7.2 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1963
  • 1h 34m
  • Comedy
  • Drama

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.

Director
Ralph Nelson
Starring
Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino

Cast

  • Sidney Poitier

    Sidney Poitier

    Homer Smith

  • Lilia Skala

    Lilia Skala

    Mother Maria

  • Lisa Mann

    Lisa Mann

    Sister Gertrude

  • 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)

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