Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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 superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
- based on novel or book
- nun
- arizona
- homelessness
- farm life
- chapel
- religion
- racism
- desert
- mother superior
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Francesca Jarvis — Sister Albertine
- Pamela Branch — Sister Elizabeth
- Stanley Adams — Juan Acolito
- Dan Frazer — Father Murphy
- Bobby Driscoll — Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)
- Ralph Nelson — Mr. Ashton (uncredited)
- Jester Hairston — Homer Smith (singing voice) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Ralph Nelson
- Written
- James Poe
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 224 ratings
- Studio
- Rainbow Productions, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
