Lolita (1962) UK, USA
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Director:Stanley Kubrick
Studio:A.A. Productions Ltd.
Producer:James B. Harris, Eliot Hyman
Writer:Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov
Rating:7.6 (85,303 votes)
Rated:Not Rated
Date Added:2019-11-18
UPC:7321900655415
Price:£13.99
Awards:Nominated for 1 Oscar
Genre:Crime, Drama, Romance
Release:2006-06-01
IMDb:0056193
Duration:153
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.66 : 1
Sound:Mono
Languages:English, French, Spanish, German
Subtitles:English, French
Features:Black and White
LAC code:4000101378
DVD or VHS:DVD
Original:original
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
Oswald Morris  ...  Cinematographer
Anthony Harvey  ...  Editor
Nelson Riddle  ...  Composer
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 ...