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Lilies of the Field
Vintage Classics Sidney Poitier won an Academy Award for best actor for his standout performance in this modest, beautiful film. Poitier plays the role of Homer Smith, a journeyman laborer, who is touring the countryside in his station...
Sidney Poitier won an Academy Award for best actor for his standout performance in this modest, beautiful film. Poitier plays the role of Homer Smith, a journeyman laborer, who is touring the countryside in his station wagon, drifting and working when the spirit moves him. One day he stops at a farm to fill his radiator and meets up with five nuns. They are members of an East German holy order, attempting to work some land that has been left to them. Lilia Skala is formidable and endearing as Mother Maria, the highest-ranking sister, who is convinced that God has answered their prayers and sent Homer to fix the roof. Homer is convinced to stay for a while and an unexpected exchange results. Directed tenderly and with restraint by Ralph Nelson, the movie was filmed entirely on location in the desert in Arizona. The light-handed yet deeply effective screenplay by James Poe is based on a novel by William E. Barrett.
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