Lilies of the Field
Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field

(1963)
NR
7.2/10
192 votes
1h 34m
June 4, 1963
"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.

Budget

$247,000

Revenue

$7,000,000