Star in the Night (1945)

1945 · Short film · 22 min · dir. Don Siegel

• Drama
• Family
• Western

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Synopsis

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.

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Details

Director

Don Siegel

Writer

Saul Elkins

Cinematography

Robert Burks

Studio

The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros. Pictures

Released

1945-10-13

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 1 win total

Running time

22 minutes

Language

English

Collection

Feature Films

Cast & crew

• Don Siegel Director
• J. Carrol Naish
• Donald Woods
• Rosina Galli
• Richard Erdman
• Lynn Baggett
• John Miles
• Anthony Caruso
• Irving Bacon

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