The read
It runs a compact 22m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
24 audience votes
Key crew
- Don SiegelDirector
- Saul ElkinsScreenplay
Cast
- 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)