Star in the Night (1945)

  • NR
  • 10/13/1945 (US)
  • Drama, Family, Western
  • 22m

Overview

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.

Don Siegel

Director

Saul Elkins

Screenplay

Cast

J. Carrol Naish's headshot

J. Carrol Naish

Nick Catapoli
Donald Woods's headshot

Donald Woods

Hitchhiker
Rosina Galli's headshot

Rosina Galli

Rosa Catapoli
Richard Erdman's headshot

Richard Erdman

Middle Cowboy
Lynn Baggett's headshot

Lynn Baggett

Maria Santos
John Miles's headshot

John Miles

Left Cowboy
Anthony Caruso's headshot

Anthony Caruso

Jose Santos
Irving Bacon's headshot

Irving Bacon

Mr. Dilson (uncredited)

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