Star in the Night
1945•22m•7.5•Released
DramaFamilyWestern
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.
Director
Don Siegel
Writer
Saul Elkins, Don Siegel
Languages
English
Studio
The Vitaphone Corporation
Cast
J. Carrol Naish
Nick Catapoli
Donald Woods
Hitchhiker
Rosina Galli
Rosa Catapoli
Richard Erdman
Middle Cowboy
Lynn Baggett
Maria Santos
John Miles
Left Cowboy
Anthony Caruso
Jose Santos
Irving Bacon
Mr. Dilson (uncredited)
Claire Du Brey
Traveler's Wife (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
Traveler (uncredited)
Virginia Sale
Miss Roberts (uncredited)
Cactus Mack
Right Cowboy (uncredited)
Production
Company
The Vitaphone Corporation
Company
Warner Bros. Pictures
Producer
Gordon Hollingshead
Recommended
8.3
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
8.4
Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace
2020
6.4
Angels in the Snow
2015
7
A Christmas Carol
1938
7.5
A Christmas Carol
1984
7.3
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1980
6.9
A Christmas Carol
2009
6.6
Where the Red Fern Grows
2003
6.3
A Wrinkle in Time
2003
6.4
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday
2004
6.5
A Veteran's Christmas
2018
6.1
The Call of the Wild
1972
7.3
3:10 to Yuma
1957
7.3
True Grit
1969
6.1
I'll Be Home for Christmas
2016
6.2
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
1995
7.7
Journey to Bethlehem
2023
8.9
Light of the World
2025
6.2
Prancer
1989
6.7
Deadwood: The Movie
2019
Similar Movies
10
CBeebies Presents: Jack And The Beanstalk
2012
6.2
Christmas Unfiltered
2022
3.7
All I Want For Christmas
2022
5.9
VeggieTales: The Toy That Saved Christmas
1996
Christmas Orphans
2025
7.3
Silent Night, Lonely Night
1969
6.4
Klaxon
1965
6
Country Roads Christmas
2022
6.1
Blood Type: Blue
1978
7.3
Lolita
1962
5.6
Holiday Rush
2019
3.3
It's Christmas Again
2022
7.2
A Christmas Story
1983
The Lundstroms: Colorado Christmas
1978
The Lundstroms' Wilderness Christmas
1979
7.4
Bad Education
2004
8
Before Sunrise
1995
10
Mesa das Crianças
2025
5.5
Meeting Mr. Christmas
2022
8.5
The Christmas Clapback
2022