Lilies of the Field 1963

Name: Lilies of the Field
Released: 1963-06-04
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis

Synopsis:

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.

Directed by:	Ralph Nelson
Written by:	James Poe
Runtime:	94 minutes
Critics score:	100 / 100
Tagline:	Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...