Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field
Release: 1963-06-04
·Runtime: 94m
·★ 7.3
Comedy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Rainbow Productions
United Artists
Cast
Sidney Poitier
as Homer Smith
Lilia Skala
as Mother Maria
Lisa Mann
as Sister Gertrude
Francesca Jarvis
as Sister Albertine
Pamela Branch
as Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams
as Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer
as Father Murphy
Bobby Driscoll
as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Ralph Nelson
as Mr. Ashton (uncredited)
