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Overview
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Release Date:
13 June 1962 (USA) moreTagline:
How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?Plot:
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(7 articles)
Lots of horrific screenings around the U.S. and UK! (From Fangoria. 8 May 2009, 1:54 PM, PDT)
Anthony Harvey Recalls Directing "The Lion In Winter" At Loews Jersey City
(From CinemaRetro. 1 May 2009, 1:14 PM, PDT)
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Whispering, Loudly moreUS TV Schedule:
| Tue. July 14 | 3:30 PM | TCM |
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 | ... | Dr. Keegee | |
| 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 |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
152 minCountry:
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #20000) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | Norway:16 | France:Unrated | Brazil:12 | Argentina:Atp (re-rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-15 (re-rating) | Finland:K-16 (original rating) | Hong Kong:III | Ireland:15 | Italy:VM14 | Japan:R-15 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1999) | UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12Fun Stuff
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Although he generally admired the movie adaptation of his book Vladimir Nabokov regretted the waste of his time in writing a screenplay which was altered so drastically during filming. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: As Humbert Humbert and Dolores race to escape the car that HH believes has been tailing them for three days, their own car sustains a puncture (blowout) and HH has to slew the car to a halt. The low camera angle at the front of the vehicle, however, shows all four tyres fully inflated and all four corners of the car riding at normal height above the road surface. moreQuotes:
Charlotte Haze: Hum, you just touch me and I... I... I go as limp as a noodle. It scares me.Humbert Humbert: Yes, I know the feeling.
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There's No You moreFAQ
Why would anyone name their daughter "Lolita"?What was the horror movie that Lolita and Humbert were watching?
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A riveting transposition from page to screen. The accomplices are two giants in both fields. Nabokov adapts his own infamous novel for the screen and Kubrick, no less, translates it into images in a way that makes it unique, unforgettable and transcendental without ever putting himself in front of the camera. A Kubrick film can't be recognized by its style. Kubrick never made two films alike but there is something that, unquestionable, makes them stand out. In "Lolita"'s case the mere idea of touching the controversial novel with its taboo subject at its very core seem like a provocation from the word go. Pornography for the thinking man in which the only explicit act is the intention written in the character's eyes. Nothing is excessive and nothing is pulled back. James Mason - villain or victim - is monumental, mo-nu-men-tal! The unspeakable truth never leaves his brow. He is the most civilized man trapped in the lowest echelon of his own psyche. So aware, that it is painful to watch. Shelley Winters goes for it, taking her Mrs Hayes for all its worth and dives into the void of a desperate housewife, craving for sex. It is one of the most entertaining, shattering human spectacles, I've ever seen. But unlike Mason, she's not aware of it. There is a horrible innocence attached to her sickness. Peter Sellers's character from hell, the torturer comes in three riveting characterizations and Sue Lyon's temptress, the child, is the devil incarnate in a performance that defies description. None of them were nominated for Oscars and the film was condemned by every moral group in America and beyond. As film experiences go, this is one of the most provocative, enthralling, disgusting, entertaining and satisfying I've ever been through. Yep, I really mean that.