Star in the Night

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.

• Don SiegelDirector
• Saul ElkinsScreenplay

• 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)