After hearing many refusals, Coppola ended up in the office of Premier Pictures Company, a small production company that had invested in a nudie-cutie called "The Wide Open Spaces", written and directed by Jerry Schafer, but the film was shelved for over a year. Both the shelved film and "The Peeper" featured Marli Renfro, so the producers decided to pay Coppola $500 to combine the scenes of his short film with those of Jerry Schafer's erotic western, creating a completely new film, "Tonight for Sure", a softcore comedy released in 1962.