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Lilies of the Field (1963)

NR ★ 7.2/10 94 min Comedy, Drama United States English
Director: Ralph Nelson
Screenplay by: James Poe
Novel: William E. Barrett
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Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...

Description

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.

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Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier Homer Smith
Lilia Skala
Lilia Skala Mother Maria
Lisa Mann
Lisa Mann Sister Gertrude
Isa Crino Sister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis
Francesca Jarvis Sister Albertine
Pamela Branch
Pamela Branch Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams
Stanley Adams Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer
Dan Frazer Father Murphy

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