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Sidney Poitier as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall...
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Sidney PoitierHomer Smith
Lilia SkalaMother Maria
Lisa MannSister Gertrude
Francesca JarvisSister Albertine
Pamela BranchSister Elizabeth
Stanley AdamsJuan Acolito
Dan FrazerFather Murphy
Bobby DriscollMexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
Ralph NelsonMr. Ashton (uncredited)
Jester HairstonHomer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Ralph Nelson
- Screenplay
- James Poe
- Original Music Composer
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Director of Photography
- Ernest Haller
- Editor
- John W. McCafferty
- Producer
- Ralph Nelson