Adapted for the screen by Vladimir Nabokov from his controversial novel about a middle-aged man driven by a furious passion for a ‘nymphet’. James Mason plays the tragic middle-aged professor Humbert Humbert who marries his widowed landlady (Shelley Winters) to be near her teenaged daughter Lolita (Sue Lyon). Peter Sellers plays the eccentric playwright Quilty who wants to hijack Lolita for himself.
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316132
Languages
Arabic
Bulgarian
Dutch
English
English
English
French
French
German
Italian
Italian
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Audience classification
MA
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Motion picture trailers
Crime, Espionage, Justice, Police & Prisons → Pedophilia
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Pedophilia
Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Literature → Russian literature - Film and video adaptations
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Sound
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Black and White
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DVD; Access Print (Section 1)