Lolita (1962 film)

Lolita is a 1962 black comedydrama film directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov, about a middleaged man who becomes obsessed with a teenage girl. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze Lolita, and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze, with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty.

Set in the 1950s, the film begins in medias res near the end of the story, with a confrontation between two men one of them, Clare Quilty, drunk and incoherent, plays Chopins Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No.on the piano before being shot from behind a portrait painting of a young woman. The shooter is Humbert Humbert, a 40something British professor of French literature.The film then flashes back to events four years earlier. Humbert arrives in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, intending to spend the summer before his professorship begins at Beardsley College, Ohio. He searches for a room to rent, and Charlotte Haze, a cloying, sexually frustrated widow, invites him to stay at her house. He declines until seeing her daughter, Dolores, affectionately called Lolita. Lolita is a sodapop drinking, gumsnapping, overtly flirtatious teenager, with whom Humbert falls in love. ........

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