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Lilies of the Field
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.
1963 · Directed by Ralph Nelson · 94 min · Comedy · Drama · 9 frames
Tagline
Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
Crew
- Screenplay: James Poe
- Cinematography: Ernest Haller
- Edited by: John W. McCafferty
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Produced by: Ralph Nelson
Cast
- Sidney Poitier as Homer Smith
- Lilia Skala as Mother Maria
- Lisa Mann as Sister Gertrude
- Isa Crino as Sister Agnes
- Francesca Jarvis as Sister Albertine
- Pamela Branch as Sister Elizabeth
- Stanley Adams as Juan Acolito
- Dan Frazer as Father Murphy
- Bobby Driscoll as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
- Ralph Nelson as Mr. Ashton (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: German, English, Spanish
- Studios: Rainbow Productions, United Artists
- Budget: $247,000
- Box office: $7,000,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, nun, arizona, homelessness, farm life, chapel, religion, racism, desert, mother superior
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