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...
- Ralph Nelson
- 1h 34m
- June 4, 1963 · United States of America
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 4, 1963
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, German, Spanish
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- United Artists,Rainbow Productions
- Cast
- Lilia Skala,Lisa Mann,Isa Crino,Francesca Jarvis,Ralph Nelson,Sidney Poitier,Bobby Driscoll,Jester Hairston,Dan Frazer,Stanley Adamsand 1 more
- Director
- Ralph Nelson
- Writer
- William E. Barrett,James Poe
- Producer
- Ralph Nelson
- Cinematography
- Ernest Haller
- Music
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Budget
- $247,000
- Revenue
- $7,000,000
- IMDb
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