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04/06/1963 Comedy, Drama 1h 34m
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Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...

Overview

An unemployed construction worker 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, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

  1. Ralph Nelson

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Sidney Poitier

    Homer Smith

  2. Lilia Skala

    Mother Maria

  3. Lisa Mann

    Sister Gertrude

  4. Isa Crino

    Sister Agnes

  5. Francesca Jarvis

    Sister Albertine

  6. Pamela Branch

    Sister Elizabeth

  7. Stanley Adams

    Juan Acolito

  8. Dan Frazer

    Father Murphy

  9. Bobby Driscoll

    Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-05-24
This is one of my favourite performances from Sidney Poitier. Normally his characterisations were settled in an environment of racist and/or bigoted undertones. This drama actually has a much lighter, more comedic, touch to it. He is "Homer" a travelling factotum who happens upon five German nuns who who are bent on building a chapel - but they have no money, no labourer, and practically no way of communicating with their largely Spanish speaking neighbours. Now "Homer" is a kindly soul, so when the headstrong and determined "Mother Maria" (Lilia Skala) coaxes and cajoles him to help them out ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$247,000.00

Revenue
$7,000,000.00

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