
Lilies of the Field
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.
- Year: 1963
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Studio: Rainbow Productions, United Artists
- Keyword: based on novel or book, nun, arizona, homelessness, farm life, chapel, religion, racism, desert, mother superior, theme song, ruins, construction worker, bonding, african american man, religious community, humanitarian work, amen, east german refugees, frugality, circuit priest, desert store
- Director: Ralph Nelson
- Cast: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis, Pamela Branch