"I'm going to put off reading LOLITA for six years. I'm waiting until she turns 18." -- Groucho Marx Based on Vladimir Nabokov's "famosum opus", the incomparable Stanley Kubrick was the first director to tackle this provocative, controversal and eminently entertaining best seller. This was not an easy undertaking, especially in the repressive social and sexual climate existing in 1962. As the movie's official tag line declared, "How did they ever make a film of Lolita?" This was pretty hot stuff, indeed, especially in the early sixties. Nabokov even remarked that to bring his work to the screen it might very well require that they "make Lolita a dwarfess." Thankfully, that did not occur. Over 800 young girls auditioned for the title role, including Tuesday Weld, but the part was ultimately handed to Sue Lyon. Her vulnerable portrayal as the yummy nymphet evokes uncontrollable stirrings in Professor Humbert Humbert, brilliantly portrayed by the often-underappreciated James...
(Read More...)- Most Senior
- Top Rated
- Least Recent
- Most Recent
Lolita
 | Sound (2)3 Plot (2)3 Cast (2)3 Special Effects (2)3 Length & Pace (2)3 Cinematography (2)3 |
Writers:Vladimir Nabokov (screenplay),Vladimir Nabokov (novel),
Release:12 June 1962 (USA)
Tagline:
Plot:
Cast: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 - Dr. Keegee, 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
Runtime:
Country:
Language:
Company:
Links: IMDb Profile
Categories: Drama, Romance
Main
Trailer
Now i am a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick, so i decided to try one of his older movies, actually this movie is almost directly in the middle of career as a director and its basically a 3 hour ride of a pedophile. Thats right, Kubric tackled this subject back in 1962, and let it drag on for about 3 hours. I don’t think that there was another director out there that had nearly the balls that Kubric did. Although there was no nudity or sex at all in the movie, he was merely more about a infatuation that the main character had with a younger girl. Still with that said, the movie is still creepy. The story starts off with an author looking for a place to live while he is in town, and he find a house that has a room for rent. As the lady is showing him his way around the house, he looks like he doesn’t want it ad is about to run away. She keeps on trying to keep him there, and she keeps showing him more and more of the house. Eventually she shows him the garden, where her...
(Read More...)» = New Post
