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Lilies of the Field

19631h 34mComedy · Drama
directed by Ralph Nelson

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

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7.2 / 10
224 votes
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7.5 / 10
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61 / 100
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Synopsis

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.

Cast

Sidney Poitier·Homer Smith
Lilia Skala·Mother Maria
Lisa Mann·Sister Gertrude
Isa Crino·Sister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis·Sister Albertine
Pamela Branch·Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams·Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer·Father Murphy
Bobby Driscoll·Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Ralph Nelson·Mr. Ashton (uncredited)