Lilies of the Field
ComedyDrama
7.22/10
|US
|en
|94 min
Release Date: 1963-06-04
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.
Production Companies
Rainbow ProductionsUnited Artists
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
This is one of my favourite performances from Sidney Poitier. Normally his characterisations were settled in an environment of racist and/or bigoted undertones. This drama actually has a much lighter, more comedic, touch to it. He is "Homer" a travelling factotum who happens upon five German nuns who who are bent on building a chapel - but they have no money, no labourer, and practically no way of...
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