Lilies Of The Field

Comedy, Drama

Sidney Poitier	Homer Smith
Lilia Skala	Mother Maria
Lisa Mann	Sister Gertrude
Isa Crino	Sister Agnes
Francesca Jarvis	Sister Albertine
Pamela Branch	Sister Elizabeth
Stanley Adams	Juan
Dan Frazer	Father Murphy
Jester Hairston	Homer Smith
Ralph Nelson	Mr. Ashton

Director	Ralph Nelson
Producer	Ralph Nelson; J. Paul Popkin
Writer	James Poe; William E. Barrett

Homer Smith (Sidney Potier) is an unemployed construction worker and ex-GI who is traveling through the desert in search of employment. When he stops at a well in a nunnery to refill his overheating station wagon, he meets Mother Maria (Lilia Skala), Sister Gertrude (Lisa Mann), Sister Agnes (Isa Crino), Sister Albertine (Francesca Jarvis), and Sister Elizabeth (Pamela Branch). Having escaped from postwar Berlin, the nuns intend to build a church, but are stymied by their lack of funds, so they ask Homer for his help.