Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Ralph Nelson's Lilies of the field [videorecording] / United Artists presents ; Rainbow Productions, Inc. ; screenplay by James Poe ; produced and directed by Ralph Nelson ; associate producer, J. Paul Popkin.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, N.Y.] : Kino Lorber Incorporated, [2015].

copyright MCMLXIII

Description:

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1)

DVD NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert...

Target Audience Note:

Not rated by MPAA.

Series:

KL Studio classics

KL studio classics.

Subjects:

Barrett, William E. (William Edmund), 1900-1986 -- Film adaptations.

African Americans -- Drama.

African Americans -- Relations with German Americans -- Drama.

Nuns -- Arizona -- Drama.

Germans -- Arizona -- Drama.

Church buildings -- Arizona -- Drama.

United States -- Race relations -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Other Author:

Nelson, Ralph, 1916-1987.

Poe, James, 1923-1980.

Poitier, Sidney.

Skala, Lilia.

Adams, Stanley, 1915-1977.

Barrett, William E. (William Edmund), 1900-1986. Lilies of the field.

United Artists Corporation.

Rainbow Productions (Chicago, Ill.)

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1992- )

Kino Lorber, Inc.

Other Title:

Lilies of the field

Lillies of the field

Notes:

First released at the Berlin International Film Festival in June 1963. First released in the U.S.A. on October 1, 1963.

Based on the novel by William E. Barrett.

"Distributed by Kino Lorber Corp. under license from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc."--Container.

Bonus material: Lilies of the Field theatrical trailer ; They Call Me Mister Tibbs trailer ; The Organization trailer ; Duel at Diablo trailer.

Music, Jerry Goldsmith ; vocal arrangements, Jester Hairston ; director of photography, Ernest Haller ; film editor, John W. McCafferty.

Sidney Poitier (Homer Smith), Lilia Skala (Mother Maria), Stanley Adams (Juan); Lisa Mann (Sister Gertrude), Isa Crino (Sister Agnes), Francesca Jarvis (Sister Albertine), Pamela Branch (Sister Elizabeth), Dan Frazer (Father Murphy).

DVD, anamorphic widescreen format (aspect ratio 1.66:1).

English language with some German and Spanish, and optional English subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Academy Award, Best Actor, 1963.

ISBN:

0738329163723

Publisher Number:

K1637

Other Number:

930183321

System Availability:

3