Lilies of the field
(DVD)

First released at the Berlin International Film Festival in June 1963. First released in the U.S.A. on October 1, 1963.

Based on the novel by William E. Barrett.

"Distributed by Kino Lorber Corp. under license from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc."--Container.

Bonus material: Lilies of the Field theatrical trailer ; They Call Me Mister Tibbs trailer ; The Organization trailer ; Duel at Diablo trailer.

Music, Jerry Goldsmith ; vocal arrangements, Jester Hairston ; director of photography, Ernest Haller ; film editor, John W. McCafferty.

Sidney Poitier (Homer Smith), Lilia Skala (Mother Maria), Stanley Adams (Juan); Lisa Mann (Sister Gertrude), Isa Crino (Sister Agnes), Francesca Jarvis (Sister Albertine), Pamela Branch (Sister Elizabeth), Dan Frazer (Father Murphy).

Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.

A traveler is pressured into building a chapel for a group of refugee nuns.

DVD, anamorphic widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.66:1).

English language with some German and Spanish, and optional English subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Academy Award, Best Actor, 1963.