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.
J. Carrol Naish | Nick Catapoli |
Rosina Galli | Rosa Catapoli |
Donald Woods | Hitchhiker |
Richard Erdman | Middle Cowboy |
Lynn Baggett | Maria Santos |
Anthony Caruso | Jose Santos |
John Miles | Left Cowboy |
Irving Bacon | Mr. Dilson |
Virginia Sale | Miss Roberts |
Dick Elliott | Traveler |
Claire Du Brey | Traveler's Wife |
Cactus Mack | Right Cowboy (uncredited) |