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Lolita is a 1962 black comedy - psychological drama film [9] directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov . The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who writes as "Humbert Humbert" and has hebephilia. He is sexually infatuated with young, adolescent Dolores Haze (whom he ...
Lolita: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell. A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Stanley Kubrick
- 1962-06-21
Nov 7, 2023 · Publication date. 1962-06-13. Topics. Stanley Kubrick. Item Size. 2604861283. Professor Humbert becomes infatuated with his landlady's teenage daughter, Lolita. His infatuation turns into a dangerous obsession when he marries the landlady just to be close to Lolita. Addeddate.
Made for $1.9 million, Lolita grossed $4.5 million in 1962, making it the year's 12th highest grossing film. U.S. video rentals have reached $3.7 million. The money with which Kubrick paid for the rights to Lolita came from his director's fee for Paths of Glory (1957) and compensation for six months he and Calder Willingham had spent working on the script for One-Eyed Jacks (1961) before Marlon Brando decided to direct the film himself.
- Stanley Kubrick
- James Mason
NR 2 hr 34 min Jun 13th, 1962 Drama. 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 ...
- James Mason
- Stanley Kubrick
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
May 19, 2024 · Lee Pfeiffer. Lolita, American dark comedy film, released in 1962, that was Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel of the same name. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) In the film, eccentric middle-aged Humbert Humbert (played by James Mason) is.
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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. Vladimir Nabokov. Novel, Screenplay.
