Lolita (1962) UK, USA
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Director:Stanley Kubrick
Studio:A.A. Productions Ltd.
Writer:Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov
Rating:7.6 (89.501 votes)
Rated:Not Rated
Date Added:2020-06-17
Awards:Nominated for 1 Oscar
Genre:Crime, Drama, Romance
IMDb:0056193
Duration:153
Aspect Ratio:1.66 : 1
Sound:Mono
Languages:English, French, Spanish, German
Stanley Kubrick  ...  (Director)
Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov  ...  (Writer)
 
James Mason  ...  Prof. Humbert Humbert
Shelley Winters  ...  Charlotte Haze
Sue Lyon  ...  Lolita
Gary Cockrell  ...  Richard T. Schiller
Jerry Stovin  ...  John Farlow
Diana Decker  ...  Jean Farlow
Lois Maxwell  ...  Nurse Mary Lore
Cec Linder  ...  Physician
Bill Greene  ...  George Swine
Shirley Douglas  ...  Mrs. Starch
Marianne Stone  ...  Vivian Darkbloom
Marion Mathie  ...  Miss Lebone
James Dyrenforth  ...  Frederick Beale Sr.
Maxine Holden  ...  Miss Fromkiss
John Harrison  ...  Tom
Summary: Humbert Humbert forces a confrontation with a man, whose name he has just recently learned, in this man's home. The events that led to this standoff began four years earlier. Middle aged Humbert, a European, arrives in the United States where he has secured at job at Beardsley College in Beardsley, Ohio as a Professor of French Literature. Before he begins his post in the fall, he decides to spend the summer in the resort town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire. He is given the name of Charlotte Haze as someone who is renting a room in her home for the summer. He finds that Charlotte, widowed now for seven years, is a woman who puts on airs. Among the demonstration of those airs is throwing around the name of Clare Quilty, a television and stage script writer, who came to speak at her women's club meeting and who she implies is now a friend. Those airs also mask being lonely, especially as she is a sexually aggressive and liberated woman. Humbert considers Charlotte a proverbial "joke" but ...