Lolita (1962)

Review: Lolita (1962)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell, Jerry Stovin,

James Mason
James Mason
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters
Sue Lyon
Sue Lyon
Gary Cockrell
Gary Cockrell
Jerry Stovin
Jerry Stovin

Plot: 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.

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Stanley Kubrick 4A: America in England &#8211; <i>Lolita</i> (1962)

Stanley Kubrick 4A: America in England – Lolita (1962)

After the experience of directing Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick got as far away from Hollywood as he could. He moved to England, where he stayed for the rest of his life and made his eight subsequent features. Interestingly, the first two of those […]

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