Searchlight Productions

Francis Ford Coppola’s feature debut blends footage from his student short The Peeper and Jerry Schafer’s The Wide Open Spaces. In a Sunset Strip burlesque club, a miner and a moralist plot an explosion at midnight, sharing tales of desire and hypocrisy as they drink and watch the show.

An early student short directed by Francis Ford Coppola while studying at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. The film served as the basis for his first feature, Tonight for Sure (1962), incorporating scenes and ideas first developed in this project.