What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
1963 · short film · 10 min
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Martin Scorsese. Photographed by James Newman. Starring Zeph Michelis, Mimi Stark, Fred Sica, Sarah Braveman.
A writer named Algernon becomes obsessed with a picture of a boat on his wall, an fixation that soon consumes his thoughts and daily life. He tries to recover through therapy and marriage, but his compulsions return—drawing him deeper into the image until he vanishes within it.
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