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Lilies of the Field

7.2 94 mins Comedy   Drama   1963
Rainbow Productions   United Artists  
Director(s): 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.

Casts of Lilies of the Field

Sidney Poitier

as Homer Smith

Lilia Skala

as Mother Maria

Lisa Mann

as Sister Gertrude

Isa Crino

as Sister Agnes

Francesca Jarvis

as Sister Albertine

Pamela Branch

as Sister Elizabeth

Stanley Adams

as Juan Acolito

Dan Frazer

as Father Murphy

Bobby Driscoll

as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)

Ralph Nelson

as Mr. Ashton (uncredited)

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