Star in the Night

(1945)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 24 votes

Genres: Drama, Family, Western

Year: 1945

Runtime: 22 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Don Siegel

Cast: Дж. Кэррол Нейш, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli, Richard Erdman, Lynn Baggett, John Miles, Anthony Caruso, Ирвинг Бэйкон, Claire Du Brey, Dick Elliott

Plot

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.