Lilies of the Field Page #5

Synopsis: Homer Smith, 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 Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert...
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Ralph Nelson
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
UNRATED
Year:
1963
94 min
326 Views


They're seconds but I figured

you could use them somewhere.

- They were taking up space at the yard.

- What do you think?

We could crush 'em.

Use them for gravel for the wall.

But those are worth... I mean...

Well, they've been fired good and strong.

- Thanks.

- Mr Ashton!

Mr Ashton!

I should have sent those bricks over

anonymously.

He's very generous - he sees we're

building with adobe, he gives us bricks.

They're very expensive.

I wonder what made him do it.

- Insurance.

- What?

Forget it.

Mr Ashton, we need bricks,

we need lumber,

we need shingles and plenty of cement.

Because we will build a school

and a hospital.

And we need beams please, Mr Ashton.

Do you understand?

Hey, Smith.

You and getting everybody involved.

You've been making a lot of mischief.

- What's the matter?

- She's really after me.

- But the chapel's almost finished.

- Oh, no. She's just beginning.

Next she'll want a school, then a hospital

and only God knows - and she -

what comes next.

Only so much is deductible.

She's gonna be on my back from now on!

That sweet old lady?

- Seor Boss, can I help you?

- No, gracias. This part is mine.

This part is mine.

Seor Smith? Will it have bells?

Sure. Some day.

So...

So.

Tomorrow, the first masses.

See...

Seat in the front. You.

Where all the people can see you.

And every one of these bricks

over the door I put in myself.

A real church for you to say the mass.

Es verdad, padre?

There is so much to do. So much to do.

Tomorrow from Northfolk

the town choir is coming.

The boys and girls. Such beautiful voices

you never have heard.

Forgive me.

They will stand over there

and up there flowers.

On both sides of the altar, flowers.

Nothing but flowers.

I have much to do. Much to do.

Many years ago, I made

a very vain and selfish prayer.

Now He has answered my prayer

through you, through many people.

I... I pray now I become worthy

of His trust and yours.

I have so much to do. So much to do.

# Ave Maris Stella

# Dei Mater alma

# Atque semper virgo

# Felix coeli porta

# Amen

Do you feel all right?

- Tonight you not smile, Herr Schmidt.

- Come on, smile.

This is like the first night you come, ja?

- Schmidt!

- Nothing's changed.

Schmidt.

You did not fasten the pews to the floor...

It's done.

You must oil the doors

so they will not squeak in the mass.

It's done.

- But the rail of the altar you did not fix.

- Everything is done.

- Ja?

- Ja.

Then it is all finished.

It's all finished.

I done builded you a "shapel".

You built me a... cha-pel.

Correction. S-ank you.

Correction. Th-ank you...

That's very nice.

Well, it's English lesson time.

- I built a chapel.

- I built a chapel.

- You built a chapel.

- You built a chapel.

- Oh, we built a chapel.

- We built a chapel.

He built the chapel.

Amen!

Amen.

Ay-men.

Ay-men!

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen, amen

Sing it over

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen, amen

See the baby

- # Amen

- # Wrapped in a manger

- # Amen

- # On Christmas morning

# Amen, amen

- # Amen

- # See him in the temple

- # Amen

- # Talking with the elders

- # Amen

- # Who marvel at his wisdom

- # Amen, amen, amen

- # Down at the Jordan

- # Amen

- # Where John was baptising

- # Amen

- # And saving all sinners

- # Amen, amen, amen

- # See him at the seaside

- # Amen

- # Talking with the fishermen

- # Amen

- # And making them disciples

- # Amen, amen, amen

- # Marching in Jerusalem

- # Amen

- # Over palm branches

- # Amen

- # In pomp and splendour

- # Amen, amen, amen

- # See him in the garden

- # Amen

- # Praying to his father

- # Amen

- # In deepest sorrow

- # Amen, amen, amen

- # Led before Pilate

- # Amen

- # Then they crucified him

- # Amen

- # But he rose on Easter

- # Amen, amen, amen

- # Hallelujah!

- # Amen

- # He died to save us

- # Amen

- # And he lives forever

- # Amen, amen, amen

- # Hallelujah!

# Amen

# Amen

# Amen!

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James Poe

James Poe (October 4, 1921 – January 24, 1980) was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Around the World in 80 Days for which he jointly won an Academy Award in 1956, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Summer and Smoke, Lilies of the Field, and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably "Three Skeleton Key" and "The Present Tense", both of which starred Vincent Price. Poe was married to actress Barbara Steele from 1969 to 1978. more…

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