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Lilies of the Field (1963)
Directed by Ralph Nelson
“Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...”
Comedy, Drama · 1h 34m
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
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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)
Jester Hairston
Homer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Ralph Nelson
- Screenplay
- James Poe
- Novel
- William E. Barrett
- Director of Photography
- Ernest Haller
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Editor
- John W. McCafferty
- Producer
- Ralph Nelson
Details
- Release date
- 1963-06-04
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- German, English, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Rainbow Productions, United Artists
- Budget
- $247,000
- Box office
- $7,000,000