Lilies of the Field
movie
Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
Released June 04, 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.
Cast
Sidney Poitier
as
Homer Smith
Lilia Skala
as
Mother Maria
Lisa Mann
as
Sister Gertrude
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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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Jester Hairston
as
Homer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)
Crew
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Jester Hairston
as
Music Arranger
Ralph Nelson
as
Director
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William E. Barrett
as
Novel
James Poe
as
Screenplay
Jerry Goldsmith
as
Original Music Composer
Ralph Nelson
as
Producer
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John W. McCafferty
as
Editor
Ernest Haller
as
Director of Photography
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Robert Eaton
as
Property Master
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J. Paul Popkin
as
Associate Producer
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Harry R. Sherman
as
Assistant Director
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Joe Popkin
as
Assistant Director