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Lilies of the Field

(1963)

June 4, 1963 1h 34m
72%
TMDB Score

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.

Ralph Nelson

Director

Top Billed Cast

SP

Sidney Poitier

Homer Smith

LS

Lilia Skala

Mother Maria

LM

Lisa Mann

Sister Gertrude

IC

Isa Crino

Sister Agnes

FJ

Francesca Jarvis

Sister Albertine

PB

Pamela Branch

Sister Elizabeth

SA

Stanley Adams

Juan Acolito

DF

Dan Frazer

Father Murphy

BD

Bobby Driscoll

Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)

RN

Ralph Nelson

Mr. Ashton (uncredited)

Official Trailer

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