Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field (1963)

1963-06-04

(US) •

Comedy,

Drama

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

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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.

Movie Cast

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Sidney Poitier

Homer Smith

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Lilia Skala

Mother Maria

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Lisa Mann

Sister Gertrude

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Isa Crino

Sister Agnes

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Francesca Jarvis

Sister Albertine

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Pamela Branch

Sister Elizabeth

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Stanley Adams

Juan Acolito

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Dan Frazer

Father Murphy

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Bobby Driscoll

Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)

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Ralph Nelson

Mr. Ashton (uncredited)