Lilies of the Field
1963/06/04 (US) | Comedy, Drama
Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
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.
Ralph Nelson
Director
James Poe
Screenplay
Lead Cast
Sidney Poitier
Homer Smith
Lilia Skala
Mother Maria
Lisa Mann
Sister Gertrude
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Isa Crino
Sister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis
Sister Albertine
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Pamela Branch
Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams
Juan Acolito
Budget
$ 247,000
Revenue
$ 7,000,000
Status
Released
Production Company
- Rainbow Productions
- United Artists
Crews
Jester Hairston
Music Arranger
William E. Barrett
Novel
Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer
Ernest Haller
Director of Photography
John W. McCafferty
Editor
Ralph Nelson
Producer