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Lilies of the field [videorecording (DVD)].

Kino Lorber, 2015.

DVD LIL 1963 Dra

Race relations -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (95 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by William E. Barrett.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.

United Artists ; Twentieth Century Fox ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; screenplay by James Poe ; produced and directed by Ralph Nelson.

Sidney Poitier with Lilia Skala and Stanley Adams.

"Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and winner of the Best Actor Oscar (Sidney Poitier, In the Heat of the Night). Homer Smith (Poitier), an itinerant handyman, is driving through the Arizona desert when he meets five impoverished nuns. Stopping to fix their leaky farmhouse roof, Homer discovers that not only will the Mother Superior not pay him for the job, but she also wants him to build their chapel -- for free! Hesitant at first, Homer soon finds himself single-handedly raising the chapel and the financing. But although he will not receive a monetary reward, Home knows that when his work is done, he'll leave that dusty desert town a much better place than when he found it. Ralph Nelson (Duel at Diablo) wonderfully directed this gem of a motion picture featuring stunning black-and-white cinematography by the great Ernest Haller (Gone with the Wind, Mildred Pierce)."--Container.

Academy Award, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Sidney Poitier), 1963.

Religious films.

Barrett, William Edmund, 1900- Lilies of the field.

Nelson, Ralph, 1916-1987

Poitier, Sidney.

Adams, Stanley, 1915-1977.

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