Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field (1963)

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

7.2 (217 votes)
1h 34m
June 4, 1963
English

Synopsis

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.

Director

Ralph Nelson

Writers

James Poe

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Original Title

Lilies of the Field

Status

Released

Budget

$247,000

Revenue

$7,000,000

Production

Rainbow Productions, United Artists