Lilies of the Field
"Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall..."
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.
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| Release Date | June 4, 1963 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | Lilies of the Field | |
| Runtime | 1h 34min | |
| Budget | $247,000 | |
| Revenue | $7,000,000 | |
| Language | English, Spanish, German | |
| Original Language | English | |
| Production Countries | United States of America | |
| Production Companies | Rainbow ProductionsUnited Artists | |
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