Lilies of the Field
19631h 34mNR
72%
224 TMDB ratings
Directed by Ralph Nelson
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.
Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
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- Release date
- June 4, 1963
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Director
- Ralph Nelson
- Box office
- $7,000,000
- Rated
- NR
