Where the Lilies Bloom

In the 1974 drama film "Where the Lilies Bloom," four underage siblings living in rural North Carolina's backwoods attempt to conceal their father's death from authorities that would force them to be split up and sent to live in foster homes. The eldest daughter Devola (Jan Smithers), and younger brother Romey (Matthew Burrill) are aided by the family's poor sharecropper landlord, Kiser Pease (Harry Dean Stanton), as they go to great lengths to keep their father's demise a secret.