Movie · 1963
Lilies of the Field
“Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...”
Released 4 June 1963 94 min Comedy / Drama More from 1963 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Lilia Skala
as Mother Maria
Jester Hairston
as Homer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)
Stanley Adams
as Juan Acolito
Ralph Nelson
as Mr. Ashton (uncredited)
Dan Frazer
as Father Murphy
Sidney Poitier
as Homer Smith
Francesca Jarvis
as Sister Albertine
Bobby Driscoll
as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Pamela Branch
as Sister Elizabeth
Lisa Mann
as Sister Gertrude
Isa Crino
as Sister Agnes
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The numbers
50years between the oldest and youngest billed
66Lilia Skala — oldest on the call sheet
16Pamela Branch — youngest billed
41average age of the credited cast