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Lilies of the Field (1963)

Lilies of the Field (1963)

Drama Comedy

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

Release Date: 1963, June 4
Directors: Ralph Nelson
Countries: United States of America
Production: Rainbow Productions, United Artists, United Artists
Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Sidney Poitier, Stanley Adams, Jester Hairston, Lilia Skala, Francesca Jarvis, Dan Frazer, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Pamela Branch

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book racism religion bold desert ruins construction worker dignified arizona chapel homelessness nun african american man farm life mother superior religious community bonding humanitarian work frugality theme song amen east german refugees circuit priest desert store