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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.
Keywords
motel
parallel story
nativity
christmas
traveler
Casts

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)
Crews

Don Siegel
Director
Gordon Hollingshead
Producer
Saul Elkins
Screenplay

William Lava
Music
Roland E. Hill Sr.
Art Direction

Robert Burks
Director of Photography
Rex Steele
Editor