Lolita

Lolita - 1962 | 152mins | Drama | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Stanley Kubrick.
Asst Director: René Dupont.
Producer: James B. Harris.
Script: Vladimir Nabokov. (based on his novel)
Cinematography: Oswald Morris.
Art Direction: William C. Andrews.
Editing: Anthony Harvey.
Production Management: Robert Sterne.
Costume Design: Gene Coffin.
Make-up Department: Betty Glasow and George Partleton.
Sound Department: H.L. Bird, Winston Ryder and Len Shilton.
Original Music: Nelson Riddle. (Lolita theme by Bob Harris).

The Cast

James Mason - Humbert Humbert
Shelley Winters - Charlotte Haze
Sue Lyon - Lolita Haze
Peter Sellers - Clare Quilty
Gary Cockrell - Dick Schiller
Jerry Stovin - John Farlow
Diana Decker - Jean Farlow

Plot Synopsis

Stanley Kubrick's 1962 classic Lolita is an adaptation of the legendary Vladimir Nabokov novel.

Lecturer Humbert Humbert moves to America to write and get a teaching job. He rents a room from widower Charlotte Haze and falls for her 15-year-old nymphet daughter Lolita. Throughout the film Humbert is also followed by screenwriter Claire Quilty, who intends to steal Lolita for himself. Humbert secretly despises Haze but marries her to enable himself to stay Lolita. When Charlotte discovers Humbert’s diaries, which reveal his desire for Lolita she rushes from the house in disgust and is killed in a car accident. Humbert removes Lolita from her holiday camp and hits the road without telling of her mother’s death. They settle down in the town of Beardsley, but after arousing neighbours' suspicions take to the road again, always trailed by the mysterious stranger.