| Genre: | Classics |
| Year: | 1961 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Cast: | James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, and Shelley Winters |
| Credits: | Directed by Stanley Kubrick |
This screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's witty, grotesque novel about a middle-aged man's sexual longing for a precocious young girl reveals Kubrick's ability to lucidly handle the moral and psychological nuances of the original text, while taming its provocative subject matter for conservative 1961 audiences (turning the sexually aggressive pubescent of the book into a well-developed teenager).
Mason's performance as the repressed Hubert Humbert, as well as Winters' role as Lolita's subtly vulgar mother, make the film unforgettable.
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