Star in the Night

Oct 13, 1945

0h 22m

★ 7.4

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.

Genres

Drama

Family

Western

Production Companies

The Vitaphone Corporation

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Nick Catapoli

J. Carrol Naish

Hitchhiker

Donald Woods

Rosa Catapoli

Rosina Galli

Middle Cowboy

Richard Erdman

Maria Santos

Lynn Baggett

Left Cowboy

John Miles

Jose Santos

Anthony Caruso

Mr. Dilson (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Traveler's Wife (uncredited)

Claire Du Brey

Traveler (uncredited)

Dick Elliott

Miss Roberts (uncredited)

Virginia Sale

Right Cowboy (uncredited)

Cactus Mack

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