Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
Original title
Lilies of the Field
Released
6/4/1963
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Production companies
United Artists, Rainbow Productions
Budget
$247,000.00
Revenue
$7,000,000.00
Runtime
1hr 34min
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.
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