Lilies of the Field
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...

June 4, 196394 min7.3EN
ComedyDrama

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 PoitierHomer Smith
Lilia Skala
Lilia SkalaMother Maria
Lisa Mann
Lisa MannSister Gertrude
Isa Crino
Isa CrinoSister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis
Francesca JarvisSister Albertine
Pamela Branch
Pamela BranchSister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams
Stanley AdamsJuan Acolito
Dan Frazer
Dan FrazerFather Murphy
Bobby Driscoll
Bobby DriscollMexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Ralph Nelson
Ralph NelsonMr. Ashton (uncredited)