Search results
MGM English1h 35m. movie. ratings. (132) sign up. Cast Stanley Adams, Pamela Branch, Isa Crino, Dan Frazer, Francesca Jarvis, Lisa Mann, Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala. Director Ralph Nelson. Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier), an itinerant handyman, is driving through the desert when he meets five nuns. Stopping to fix their leaky farmhouse roof, Homer ...
- 95 min
A really great film that works due to Poitier more than anything else. He carried what could have been a disappointing production into cinematic history. Arguably the best film of 1963, "Lilies of the Field" continues to be a funny, dramatic and heart-warming film nearly 40 years after its initial release. 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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. Ralph Nelson. Director.
Sidney Poitier won the Best Actor Oscar® as a warm, sensitive handyman who, while stranded in an Arizona desert town, builds a chapel for a lively group of n...
Portland Oregonian. Sidney Poitier and Lilia Skala make a fine odd couple in this whimsical drama of a wandering handyman who is persuaded to help a tiny community of German nuns build a convent in the American desert. [25 Dec 1992, p.AE05] Read More. By Ted Mahar. 80.
Jerry Goldsmith. Del Harris. Carlton W. Faulkner. William E. Barrett. James Poe. 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 ...
