Lolita
“How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” asked the ads for Stanley Kubrick’s slyly sardonic adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s seemingly unfilmable novel, a movie that plays its scandalous source material as a darkly comic, unsettlingly absurdist portrait of twisted obsession and romantic delusion. James Mason is Humbert Humbert, the European literature professor abroad in America whose illicit infatuation with Lolita (Sue Lyon), the adolescent daughter of his landlady (Shelley Winters), drives him to ever more amoral depths of paranoia, degradation, and destructive jealousy. As Humbert’s menacingly enigmatic nemesis Clare Quilty, Peter Sellers displays the brilliance for protean comic improvisation that he would soon deploy with full force in Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
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Cast
- James Mason
- Humbert Humbert
- Shelley Winters
- Charlotte Haze
- Sue Lyon
- Lolita Haze
- Peter Sellers
- Clare Quilty
- Gary Cockrell
- Dick
- Jerry Stovin
- John Farlow
- Diana Decker
- Jean Farlow
- Lois Maxwell
- Nurse Mary Lore
- Cec Linder
- Physician
- Shirley Douglas
- Mrs. Starch
- Marianne Stone
- Vivian Darkbloom
- Marion Mathie
- Miss Lebone
- Maxine Holden
- Miss Fromkiss
- John Harrison
- Tom
- Cohn Maitland
- Charlie
- Bill Greene
- Swine
- Isobell Lucas
- Louise
- James Dyrenforth
- Beale
- Roberta Shore
- Lorna
- Irvin Allen
- Hospital attendant
- Craig Sams
- Rex
- Eric Lane
- Roy
- C. Denier Warren
- Potts
- Roland Brand
- Bill
- Suzanne Gibbs
- Mona Farlow
Credits
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Produced by
- James B. Harris
- Screenplay by
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Based on the novel Lolita by
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Original music
- Nelson Riddle
- “Lolita” theme
- Bob Harris
- With orchestrations by
- Gil Grau
- Production supervisor
- Raymond Anzarut
- Art director
- Bill Andrews
- Associate art director
- Sidney Cain
- Director of photography
- Oswald Morris
- Editor
- Anthony Harvey
- Production manager
- Robert Sterne
- Assistant director
- Rene Dupont
- Camera operator
- Denys N. Coop
- Casting
- James Liggat
- Second unit director
- Dennis Stock
- Makeup
- George Partleton
- Assistant editor
- Lois Gray
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