Lolita
feature film, UK, USA, 1962
DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick
CAST:
James Mason (prof. Humbert),
Sue Lyon (Lolita),
Shelley Winters (Charlotte Haze),
Peter Sellers (Clare Quilty)
SCRIPT:
Vladimir Nabokov (based on his own novel)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Oswald Morris
MUSIC:
Nelson Riddle
EDITING:
Anthony Harvey
Synopsis:
Professor Humbert Humbert moved to America to devote himself to writing and
teaching at the University of Ohio. He rents a room from a widow, Charlotte
Haze. Soon, he falls in love with Lolita, Charlotte’s fourteen-year-old
daughter. To be closer to Lolita, he marries her mother. But, television
screenwriter, Clare Quilty, wants Lolita for himself… This is an entertaining and bizarre comedy, with great black humor. Vladimir
Nabokov was nominated for the Oscar for best screenplay.
b/w, 153'