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"Lolita" is a 1962 film directed by Stanley Kubrick that tells the controversial story of an older man's obsession with a young girl. The film is considered significant for its artistic approach to adapting a complex and disturbing literary work, and it sparked important discussions about what cinema could address as subject matter.
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7.3Humbert 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.
Released: 1962-06-13154 minDir: Stanley KubrickDrama, Comedy
Cast
- James Mason as Prof. Humbert Humbert
- Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze
- Sue Lyon as Dolores "Lolita" Haze
- Gary Cockrell as Richard T. "Dick" Siller
- Jerry Stovin as John Farlow
- Diana Decker as Jean Farlow
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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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1960s psychological drama films1962 American films1962 British films1962 English-language films1962 films1962 romantic drama filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican black comedy filmsAmerican nonlinear narrative filmsAmerican psychological drama filmsBritish black-and-white filmsBritish black comedy films