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Lilies of the Field(1963)
Status: Released
Date: 1963-06-04
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192 Votes
Time: 1h 34m
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.
Languages: English, Spanish, German.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $247,000.00
Revenue: $7,000,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Rainbow Productions
Movie: Lilies of the Field
Top 10 Billed Cast
Sidney Poitier
Homer Smith
Lilia Skala
Mother Maria
Lisa Mann
Sister Gertrude
Francesca Jarvis
Sister Albertine
Stanley Adams
Juan Acolito
Dan Frazer
Father Murphy
Bobby Driscoll
Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Ralph Nelson
Mr. Ashton (uncredited)
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