Lilies of the Field
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.
- Year: 1963
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Studio: Rainbow Productions, United Artists
- Keyword: based on novel or book, nun, arizona, homelessness, farm life, chapel, racism, desert, construction worker
- Director: Ralph Nelson
- Cast: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis, Pamela Branch