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.

Cast

J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli, Richard Erdman, Lynn Baggett, John Miles, Anthony Caruso, Irving Bacon

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What is "Star in the Night" about?

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.

When was "Star in the Night" released?

Star in the Night was released in 1945.

Who stars in "Star in the Night"?

The cast includes J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli, Richard Erdman.

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