Lolita (1962)
18
11/09/1962 (GB)
Drama, Comedy, Romance
2h 34m
- 73% (2133 votes)
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How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?
Overview
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
- Stanley KubrickDirector
- Vladimir NabokovScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2,000,000
Revenue
$9,250,000
Keywords
- hotel
- depression
- lolita
- small town
- secret love
- based on novel or book
- sexual obsession
- summer camp
- midlife crisis
- loss of loved one
- literature professor
- widow
- flirt
- eroticism
- youngster
- motel
- diary
- seduction
- provocation
- fascination
- one-sided love
- forbidden love
- adoptive father
- older man younger woman relationship
- sex with a minor
Top Billed Cast
James Mason
Prof. Humbert Humbert
Shelley Winters
Charlotte Haze
Sue Lyon
Dolores "Lolita" Haze
Gary Cockrell
Richard T. "Dick" Siller
Jerry Stovin
John Farlow
Diana Decker
Jean Farlow
Lois Maxwell
Nurse Mary Lore
Cec Linder
Physician
Bill Greene
George Swine
Shirley Douglas
Mrs. Starch
Recommendations
The Killing (77%)
Lolita (71%)
Spartacus (75%)
Paths of Glory (83%)
Killer's Kiss (63%)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (81%)
Barry Lyndon (80%)
The Handyman (62%)
The Bothersome Man (70%)
