Star in the Night

The story

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 & crew

J. Carrol NaishNick Catapoli

Donald WoodsHitchhiker

Rosina GalliRosa Catapoli

Richard ErdmanMiddle Cowboy

Lynn BaggettMaria Santos

John MilesLeft Cowboy

Anthony CarusoJose Santos

Irving BaconMr. Dilson (uncredited)

Claire Du BreyTraveler's Wife (uncredited)

Dick ElliottTraveler (uncredited)

Virginia SaleMiss Roberts (uncredited)

Cactus MackRight Cowboy (uncredited)