Film: Lilies of the Field - 1963 Genre: Comedy drama ‧ 1h:34m Director: Ralph Nelson Music by: Jerry Goldsmith Stars: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer. Plot: Homer Smith is an itinerant jack-of-all-trades who stops at a farm in the Arizona desert to obtain some water for his car. There he sees several women working on a fence, very ineptly. The women, who speak very little English, introduce themselves as German, Austrian and Hungarian nuns. The mother superior, the leader of the nuns, persuades him to do a small roofing repair. Instead of paying him and letting him continue on his way, they invite him to stay to dinner, where all speak in German. They all call him "Schmidt" the German equivalent of Smith. He teaches them some more English and they all have fun.