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

J J. Carrol NaishNick Catapoli D Donald WoodsHitchhiker R Rosina GalliRosa Catapoli R Richard ErdmanMiddle Cowboy L Lynn BaggettMaria Santos J John MilesLeft Cowboy A Anthony CarusoJose Santos I Irving BaconMr. Dilson (uncredited) C Claire Du BreyTraveler's Wife (uncredited) D Dick ElliottTraveler (uncredited) V Virginia SaleMiss Roberts (uncredited) C Cactus MackRight Cowboy (uncredited)