Product: Lilies of the Field [VHS] (1963)
Rating: 5.0
Money Is Not Everything
Sidney Poitier plays Homer Smith, a wandering handyman, who, while travelling through Arizona, runs into a group of very impoverished nuns. He stops at their delapidated farm house to fix a leaky roof. To his great surprise, the Mother Superior does not have any money to pay him for his work; she, also, to his astonishment, wants him to build them a chapel for free too. Needless to say, Homer is flabbergasted and hesitates, at first, to begin the work; yet, he single-handedly begins erecting the chapel knowing full well that he will not receive any money. What spurrs him on is the thought that when the work is completed he will leave this woebegone desert town a better place than when he found it.