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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Stars: |
Sue Lyon |
| Actors: |
Jerry Stovin |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Character Study · Family Interaction · Murder · Racy · Essential Cinema · Classic · Mystery · Thriller |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
012569500426 |
| Release Date: |
1962 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 32min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Stanley Kubrick Collection; Letterboxed, 2hr 32min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (June 12, 2001)
UPC: 012569554122 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 32min
Release Company: MGM Home Entertainment (February 10, 1998)
UPC: 027616006837 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Stanley Kubrick |
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Professional Reviews
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(11/02/2004, p.4D, Mike Clark): "[A] deadpan lead Sue Lyon plays amusingly off the typically intense vocal cadences of James Mason, who is in top form." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"Are you Quilty?"--Humbert Humbert (James Mason)
"No, I'm Spartacus. Have you come to free the slaves or somethin'?"--Quilty (Peter Sellers), in a reference to Kubrick's classic 1960 film
"Hum, you just touch me and I--I go as limp as a noodle. It scares me."--Charlotte (Shelley Winters)
"Yes, I know the feeling."--Humbert |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire, he is immediately set upon by his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), and her adolescent daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). Although Humbert gets involved with Charlotte, it is Lolita with whom he becomes obsessed. When Charlotte sends her daughter away to summer camp (the aptly named Camp Climax), Humbert becomes consumed with jealousy. He finally takes Lolita out of camp and heads out alone with her. He is pestered along the way by Clare Quilty (played magnificently by Peter Sellers), who threatens to expose him. But nothing can break the hold Lolita has over Humbert. <br> <br> From the opening credits sequence--a close-up of a man's hand (with a wedding ring) carefully polishing a young girl's toenails--Kubrick's biting, darkly comic LOLITA burns w... |
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