Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Lilies Of The Field (1963)

Lilies Of The Field - (Original Trailer)

Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor playing an ex-GI who helps a group of German nuns build a chapel in Lilies Of The Field (1963).

Lilies Of The Field (1963) -- (Movie Clip) "Vee Build A Shapel"

Morning after his impromptu overnight stay with the immigrant nuns in Arizona after he did some work for them while passing by, Homer (Sidney Poitier) figures he’s outa there, but Mother Maria (Lilia Skala) has bigger plans, in Ralph Nelson’s Lilies Of The Field, 1963.

Lilies Of The Field (1963) -- (Movie Clip) He Has Sent Me A Big Strong Man

From the opening, Sidney Poitier is somewhere in Arizona and needs water for his station wagon, and comes upon a group of presumably German nuns at a previously deserted ranch, Lilia Skala their chief, in director Ralph Nelson’s Lilies Of The Field, 1963.

Lilies Of The Field (1963) -- (Movie Clip) You Don't Fuss With Your Contractor

Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) was leaving but agreed to drive Mother Maria (Lilia Skala) and Gertrude (Lisa Mann) into the nearby Arizona town, leading to an encounter with contractor Ashton (played by director Ralph Nelson), and a un-premeditated commitment, in Lilies Of The Field, 1963.

Lilies Of The Field (1963) -- (Movie Clip) God Sets A Mighty Poor Table

We still don’t know much about Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier), maybe an itinerant handyman in Arizona, except that he wanted to be paid, rather than be asked to stay to dinner with the band of European nuns, led by Lilia Skala as Mother Maria, early in Lilies Of The Field, 1963.

Lilies Of The Field (1963) -- (Movie Clip) My Skin Is Black

Handyman Homer (Sidney Poitier) starting to enjoy after dinner, when he sees that Mother Maria (Lilia Skala) and the nuns (Lisa Mann, Isa Crino, Francesca Jarvis, Pamela Branch) are learning English from a record player, still on the first evening, in director Ralph Nelson’s Lilies Of The Field, 1963.