Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
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- Drama
- Comedy
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
- desert
- chapel
- ruins
- arizona
- homelessness
- bold
- nun
- farm life
- dignified
- african american man
- mother superior
- construction worker
- religious community
- theme song
- bonding
- humanitarian work
- amen
- frugality
- east german refugees
- circuit priest
- desert store
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
- Budget
- $247,000
- Revenue
- $7,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0057251