Genre: | Drama |
Director: | Larry Peerce |
Starring: | Ray Sharkey Linda Fiorentino |
Music: | Lalo Schifrin |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Executive Producer: | Charles W. Fries |
Producer: | Richard Maynard |
Location: | Eloy, Arizona Casa Grande, Arizona Coolidge, Arizona Florence, Arizona |
Cinematography: | Gerald Hirschfeld |
Editor: | Bob Wyman |
Runtime: | 3hr. 6min. |
Company: | Fries Entertainment Richard Maynard Productions |
Network: | Showtime |
The Neon Empire is a 1989 American television crime-drama miniseries directed by Larry Peerce and starring Ray Sharkey and Linda Fiorentino.[1] [2] It originally aired on two consecutive nights (December 3 and 4, 1989) on Showtime.[2]
Junior Morloff, a Jewish gangster, is traveling out west when he comes across Las Vegas, a small town at the time. Surprised that gambling is legal there, he gets an idea to build a casino.