Movie: Star in the Night

Top 10 Billed Cast

J. Carrol Naish
J. Carrol Naish

Nick Catapoli

Donald Woods
Donald Woods

Hitchhiker

Rosina Galli
Rosina Galli

Rosa Catapoli

Richard Erdman
Richard Erdman

Middle Cowboy

Lynn Baggett
Lynn Baggett

Maria Santos

John Miles
John Miles

Left Cowboy

Anthony Caruso
Anthony Caruso

Jose Santos

Irving Bacon
Irving Bacon

Mr. Dilson (uncredited)

Claire Du Brey
Claire Du Brey

Traveler's Wife (uncredited)

Dick Elliott
Dick Elliott

Traveler (uncredited)

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    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

    1945-10-13

  • Average

    7.455

  • Rating:

    3.7 starts
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    English
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