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Release Date:
13 June 1962 (USA)
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Tagline:
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 synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 7 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(16 articles)
Martin Amis on Vladimir Nabokov's work
(From The Guardian - Film News. 13 November 2009, 4:06 PM, PST)
Official Posters for ‘The Road’ and ‘Youth In Revolt’ Released
(From The Flickcast. 22 October 2009, 8:00 AM, PDT)
(From The Guardian - Film News. 13 November 2009, 4:06 PM, PST)
Official Posters for ‘The Road’ and ‘Youth In Revolt’ Released
(From The Flickcast. 22 October 2009, 8:00 AM, PDT)
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Cynically romantic
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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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Runtime:
152 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound 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) |
USA:TV-14 |
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/12
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The German accent Peter Sellers uses in one of his guises was later used by him extensively in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (as the title character).
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Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: There is a moving shadow of crew member on Humbert's back when he is talking to Lolita in the kitchen of her house; the same movements can be seen directly in crew member's reflection on the television screen facing the camera.
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Quotes:
Clare Quilty:
Listen, didn't you... didn't you have a daughter? Didn't you have a daughter with a lovely name? Yeah! A lovely... What was it now? A lovely, lyrical, lilting name, like, uh... uh...
Charlotte Haze: Lo-li-ta!
Clare Quilty: Lolita, that's right, Lolita. Diminutive of Dolores, "The Tears and the Roses."
Charlotte Haze: Wednesday she's going to have a cavity filled by your Uncle Ivor.
Clare Quilty: Yes. Hahahahaha... Yes.
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Charlotte Haze: Lo-li-ta!
Clare Quilty: Lolita, that's right, Lolita. Diminutive of Dolores, "The Tears and the Roses."
Charlotte Haze: Wednesday she's going to have a cavity filled by your Uncle Ivor.
Clare Quilty: Yes. Hahahahaha... Yes.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Steve Carell/Kanye West (#31.1)" (2005)
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Soundtrack:
There's No You
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Why would anyone name their daughter "Lolita"?What is a "coronary thrombosis"?
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Having read the Nabokov novel and the two well-known versions of the film, I believe the most accurate way of defining the relations is: Lyne´s film is more faithful to the literal reading of the story, Kubrick's one is far more faithful to its spirit and, what is even more important, it isn't drowned by comparisons with the book.
Probably what bothers most people who have seen both films and read the novel is that Kubrick gives ample space to cynicism, farce and mocking of all the main (and even secondary) characters: it ridicules both the cultured, refined and cosmopolitan Englishman and the pseudo-liberal and fairly tacky Americans (the cultural and behavioral differentiation reminding me of Henry James, just in reverse). The child temptress is here seen more realistically as a sexy however vacuous and irritating teenager and Humbert´s love of her as a noble and real but tremendously stupid infatuation (coming from a cold-headed intellectual like him). Also delightful the portrayal of alcoholic and neurotic Shelley Winters, and particularly of Peter Sellers as a mediocre tv writer enhanced by American middle-class culture. There is a lot of witty sociopolitical criticism here.
Adrian Lynne's version, being utterly romantic (and striving really too hard to be poetic) may seem more accurate on the love story but is really Nabokov's intention to tell a love story as such? I can't really appreciate how such wonderful novelist could be so obvious and open to his reader. Not forgetting the romanticism of Humbert's feelings of despair towards the girl, Kubrick doesn't indulge in a simple love story but explores all the most obscure consequences of irrationality and does so with irony and sarcasm (humour is everywhere) but also with a touch of compassionate dramatism when appropriate.
We have a classic here, both faithful to the novel and full of innovations. Lynne´s intent is merely a limp follower of its two (the literary and the filmic) predecessors.