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.

  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Release Date: 1963-06-04
  • Runtime: 94 min
  • Country: United States of America
  • Language: English, Spanish, German
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 7.246
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