Lilies of the Field
“Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...”
7.2(231)NR19631h 34mEN
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Part of the Lilies of the Field CollectionAn 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.
based on novel or booknunarizonahomelessnessfarm lifechapelreligionracismdesertmother superiortheme songruins
Budget $247.0KBox office $7.0M
