Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
1963-06-04 | 94 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Sidney PoitierHomer Smith
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Lilia SkalaMother Maria
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Lisa MannSister Gertrude
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Francesca JarvisSister Albertine
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Pamela BranchSister Elizabeth
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Stanley AdamsJuan Acolito
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Dan FrazerFather Murphy
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Bobby DriscollMexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
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Ralph NelsonMr. Ashton (uncredited)
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Jester HairstonHomer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)
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