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.
- 7.3
- 1963
- Released
- 1h 34m
Sidney Poitier
Homer Smith
Lilia Skala
Mother Maria
Lisa Mann
Sister Gertrude
Isa Crino
Sister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis
Sister Albertine
Pamela Branch
Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams
Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer
Father Murphy
Bobby Driscoll
Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)Jester Hairston
Homer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)![Lilies of the Field (1963) Original Trailer [FHD]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/l5G_dQZE01o/hqdefault.jpg)
Released
en
$247,000.00
$7,000,000.00
- #based on novel or book
- #nun
- #arizona
- #homelessness
- #farm life
- #chapel
- #religion
- #racism
- #desert
- #mother superior
- #theme song
- #ruins
- #construction worker
- #bonding
- #african american man
- #religious community
- #humanitarian work
- #bold
- #dignified
- #amen
- #east german refugees
- #frugality
- #circuit priest
- #desert store
Reviews
This is one of my favourite performances from Sidney Poitier. Normally his characterisations were settled in an environment of racist and/or bigoted undertones. This drama actually has a much lighter, more comedic, touch to it. He is "Homer" a travelling factotum who happens upon five German nuns who who are bent on building a chapel - but they have no money, no labourer, and practically no way of