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Lolita

1962 · Film · 154 min

  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Romance

Plot

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

About Lolita

Lolita is a 1962 black comedy-psychological drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature professor who develops an infatuation with an adolescent. It stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Shelley Winters as Mrs. Haze, Peter Sellers as Quilty, and Sue Lyon (in her film debut) as Dolores "Lolita" Haze. The novel was considered "unfilmable" when Kubrick acquired the rights around the time of its U.S. publication. Owing to restrictions imposed by the Hays Code (1934–68), Kubrick and producer James B. Harris were compelled to tone down the pedophilic elements that were central to the novel's narrative. Sue Lyon was 14 years old at the time filming began.

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Cast

  • James MasonProf. Humbert Humbert
  • Shelley WintersCharlotte Haze
  • Sue LyonDolores "Lolita" Haze
  • Gary CockrellRichard T. "Dick" Siller
  • Jerry StovinJohn Farlow
  • Diana DeckerJean Farlow
  • Lois MaxwellNurse Mary Lore
  • Cec LinderPhysician
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