Star in the Night
1945 · 22 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 1,288 VOTES · DIR. Don Siegel
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 278 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:37 Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way...
00:01:20 - No, what? - Dang if I can see anything.
00:02:23 Star Picture Palace.
00:03:00 Especially when you're a hitch-hiker.
00:03:38 - Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas!
00:04:12 Because the true meaning of Christmas is peace, brotherhood and love.
00:04:58 Rosa, Rosa!
00:05:39 I suppose you can give me an argument about this one. Plain deliberately ripped right here.
00:06:27 Yes?
00:07:01 Well, just give us a couple of extra blankets.
00:07:41 But what does that prove?
00:08:22 Nick, you know better than that.
00:09:25 She looks sick.
00:10:23 It's my fault maybe it's no more cabins left?
00:11:11 Come. I'll show you.
00:12:00 but I'll fix you up nice and comfortable.
00:12:52 No, really? Oh, the poor kid!
00:13:36 You sit right here, my boy, and take it easy.
00:14:27 Let's go.
00:16:05 There's two for a quarter.
00:17:17 Look at all you're doing.
00:18:02 That's great my boy!
00:18:42 I've never seen a new baby.
00:19:43 Merry Christmas.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed278
Dialogue density12.6 lines / min
First line00:00:37
Final line00:19:43
Production Record
DirectorDon Siegel
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,288