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Find out who starred in the Oscar-winning drama film Lilies of the Field, directed by Ralph Nelson and based on a novel by William E. Barrett. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers and other crew members on IMDb.
Lilies of the Field: Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino. A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
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- Drama
- Ralph Nelson
- 1963-07-05
Lilies of the Field. (1963 film) Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American comedy-drama film adapted by James Poe from the 1962 novel of the same name by William Edmund Barrett, and stars Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer. It was produced and directed by Ralph Nelson. The title comes from the Sermon on the Mount in the ...
Find out who starred in the 1963 drama film Lilies of the Field, directed by Ralph Nelson and based on a novel by William E. Barrett. Sidney Poitier plays Homer Smith, an ex-GI who builds a chapel for a convent in the desert.
- Ralph Nelson
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 ...
When traveling African-American handyman Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) stops by a farm in rural Arizona, he is welcomed by a group of Roman Catholic nuns who have emigrated from Germany. Realizing ...
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- Comedy, Drama
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The film Lilies of the Field, released in 1963, is the type of film the trades used to call "heartwarming"; a wandering ex-G.I. stops by a farm being run by five German nuns and agrees to help them out with various and sundry tasks and chores.
