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Lilies of the Field (1963)

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

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 & Crew

Director
Ralph Nelson
  • Profile picture of Sidney Poitier
    Homer Smith Sidney Poitier
  • Profile picture of Lilia Skala
    Mother Maria Lilia Skala
  • Profile picture of Lisa Mann
    Sister Gertrude Lisa Mann
  • Profile picture of Francesca Jarvis
    Sister Albertine Francesca Jarvis
  • Profile picture of Stanley Adams
    Juan Acolito Stanley Adams
  • Profile picture of Dan Frazer
    Father Murphy Dan Frazer
  • Profile picture of Bobby Driscoll
    Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited) Bobby Driscoll
  • Profile picture of Ralph Nelson
    Mr. Ashton (uncredited) Ralph Nelson

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