Lilies of the Field (1963)

Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...

Movie · Comedy, Drama · 1h 34m · Rated 7.2/10 on TMDB · Released June 4, 1963

Overview

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.

Directed by Ralph Nelson

Cast

• 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)
• Jester Hairston as Homer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)

More like this

• The Wonder (2022)
• Die My Love (2025)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Critical Care (1997)
• The Road (2009)
• This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
• Babes (2024)
• The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
• Riff-Raff (1991)
• Freedom Writers (2007)
• One Battle After Another (2025)
• The Homesman (2014)

Movie and show details come from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.