Lilies of the Field
An itinerant handyman stops at an Arizona farm for water and is taken by a group of German-speaking nuns as the answer to a prayer. He means to be paid and move on, and instead finds himself teaching them English, driving them to Mass and being manoeuvred into building a chapel with no money for materials. Sidney Poitier's win made him the first Black actor to take the Academy Award in a leading role.
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- takes its title from ↑ The Gospels
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