Lilies of the Field
Friars & Film
English - January 12, 2021 20:00TV & Film movies film hollywood priests dominicans order preachers catholic hoyt danaher Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A discussion of the1963 film for which Sidney Poitier won Best Actor at the Academy Awards. The story of a migrant worker, traveling through rural Arizona and then taken in by Catholic German nuns, is based on a William Edmund Barrett novel of the same name. Intro music: "Magne Pater" by Dominican Schola Cantorum. Outro music: "Amen" from the film itself.