Poster for the movie "Lilies of the Field"

Lilies of the Field

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

19631 h 34 minNR
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.

Metadata
Director Ralph Nelson
Certification NR
Runtime 1 h 34 min
Release Date 4 June 1963
Original Music Composer Jerry Goldsmith
Details
Movie Media DVD
Movie Format
Actors
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis, Pamela Branch, Stanley Adams, Dan Frazer, Ralph Nelson