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