Release Date: 1945-10-13
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.
Rating: 7.4 / 10
J. Carrol Naish
as Nick Catapoli
Donald Woods
as Hitchhiker
Rosina Galli
as Rosa Catapoli
Richard Erdman
as Middle Cowboy
Lynn Baggett
as Maria Santos
Don Siegel - Director
William Lava - Music
Gordon Hollingshead - Producer
Rex Steele - Editor
Saul Elkins - Screenplay
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