Lilies of the Field (1963)

10/01/1963 1h 34m

Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...

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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.

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Cast Ages at Release

Sidney Poitier

as Homer Smith

Born 02/20/1927

Died 01/07/2022, age

Lilia Skala

as Mother Maria

Born 11/28/1896

Died 12/18/1994, age

Bobby Driscoll

as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)

Born 03/03/1937

Died 03/30/1968, age