Star in the Night

Star in the Night — Plot

Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.

• Release date
• October 13, 1945
• Runtime
• 22 min
• Genres
• Drama, Family, Western
• Director
• Don Siegel

Star in the Night — Cast

J. Carrol Naish Nick Catapoli Donald Woods Hitchhiker Rosina Galli Rosa Catapoli Richard Erdman Middle Cowboy Lynn Baggett Maria Santos John Miles Left Cowboy Anthony Caruso Jose Santos Irving Bacon Mr. Dilson (uncredited)