"Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...". An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior (Mother Maria), who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert...

Movie rating: 7.5 / 10 (14548)

Directed by: James Poe - Ralph Nelson - William E. Barrett

Writer credits: James Poe - James Poe - William E. Barrett

Cast: Sidney Poitier - Lilia Skala - Lisa Mann - Isa Crino - Francesca Jarvis

AKA: Piety in the Sky, The Amen Man, The Mischief Maker, Lilies in the fields, Lilien auf dem Felde

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