The Neon Ceiling
7.7
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he collects and attaches to the ceiling.
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Gig Young
Jones
Known for
Game of Death
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Lee Grant
Carrie Miller
Known for
Damien - Omen II
In the Heat of the Night
John Badham
Howard Rodman
Frank Pierson
Robert F. Shugrue
Denise Nickerson
Paula Miller
Known for
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
William Sackheim
Carol Sobieski
Billy Goldenberg
Herb Edelman
Harry
Known for
The Odd Couple
Barefoot in the Park
Edward Rosson
Frank Pierson Director · Carol Sobieski Screenplay Howard Rodman Writer
United States release February 8, 1971 · Produced in United States
Production
Universal Television
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · February 8, 1971
TV · NBC
Japan
March 10, 1972
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