Lilies of the Field (1963)
04/06/1963 (US)•Comedy, Drama•1h 34m
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Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
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.
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StatusReleased
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$247,000.00
Revenue$7,000,000.00
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- nun
- arizona
- homelessness
- farm life
- chapel
- religion
- racism
- desert
- mother superior
- theme song
- ruins
- construction worker
- bonding
- african american man
- religious community
- humanitarian work
- amen
- east german refugees
- frugality
- circuit priest
- desert store