Lolita
Humbert Humbert forces a confrontation with a man, whose name he has just recently learned, in this man's home. The events that led to this standoff began four years earlier. Middle aged Humbert, a European, arrives in the United States where he has secured at job at Beardsley College in Beardsley, Ohio as a Professor of French Literature. Before he begins his post in the fall, he decides to spend the summer in the resort town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire. He is given the name of Charlotte Haze as someone who is renting a room in her home for the summer. He finds that Charlotte, widowed now for seven years, is a woman who puts on airs. Among the demonstration of those airs is throwing around the name of Clare Quilty, a television and stage script writer, who came to speak at her women's club meeting and who she implies is now a friend. Those airs also mask being lonely, especially as she is a sexually aggressive and liberated woman. Humbert considers Charlotte a proverbial "joke" but ...
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Vladimir Nabokov (screenplay), Vladimir Nabokov (novel)
Production: N/A
Year: 1962
MetaScore: 79/100
ImdbRating: 7.6
BoxOffice: N/A
Released: 21 Jun 1962
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 8 nominations.
Movie Video Clips
00:53
I've missed you terribly
01:40
She had an accident
01:10
This mixture in my Lolita of tender
00:23
I go as limp as a noodle
00:25
Who's there
00:15
We don't read other people's diaries now
01:40
Why don't we play a game
00:24
I'm really sorry that I cheated so much
01:16
What happened to this Oriental minded...
00:28
I forbid you to disturb Professor...
00:12
Right in the boxing glove
01:31
Madame Humbert
00:20
The best people shave twice a day
00:18
There's a nice view from this window
00:32
If what you're needing is peace and...
02:19
I can't read
03:08
Would you like me to read you some...
00:29
You're crazy
00:25
What happened to your bed
00:11
What shall we do now
00:36
You will promise
00:28
I don't want you around them
00:45
I told you no dates
00:31
I'm going to ask you something about...
01:00
You never let me have any fun
00:12
Don't smudge your toenails
01:39
The facts of life
03:05
I have not made my point quite clear
00:17
Queer how I misinterpreted the...
01:12
You're a sort of bad loser
00:22
It's so unsanitary
00:26
You are either Australian or a German...
00:34
That's a darling little gun you got...
00:33
I could fix for you to attend executions
00:28
This would be your room
00:40
You have a maid living in the house
00:58
You must see the garden before you go
00:27
You're a very persuasive saleswoman
00:28
When you get to know me better
00:35
I hope I didn't keep you waiting too...
01:04
I wonder if you aren't being too liberal...
00:34
I have no sense of rhythm
00:13
Must you pamper your pimples
00:30
I haven't even had my morning cup of...
00:18
You do arouse the pagan in me
00:17
She was a wonderful person
00:37
Are you sending her to that Camp Climax...
01:44
But you don't like to leave
01:41
As a matter of fact
00:10
The cot came
00:14
Go and get some Type A Kodachrome
00:42
I have to go to school
00:15
Do you think I wanted to have a blow out
Movie Quotes
Movie Cast
Prof. Humbert Humbert - James Mason
Charlotte Haze - Shelley Winters
Lolita - Sue Lyon
Richard T. Schiller - Gary Cockrell
John Farlow - Jerry Stovin
Jean Farlow - Diana Decker
Nurse Mary Lore - Lois Maxwell
Physician - Cec Linder
George Swine - Bill Greene
Mrs. Starch - Shirley Douglas
Vivian Darkbloom - Marianne Stone
Miss Lebone - Marion Mathie
Frederick Beale Sr. - James Dyrenforth
Miss Fromkiss - Maxine Holden
Tom - John Harrison
Charlie Sedgewick - Colin Maitland
Man (as Terence Kilburn) - Terry Kilburn
Potts - C. Denier Warren
Bill Crest - Roland Brand
Clare Quilty - Peter Sellers
Hospital Attendant - Irvin Allen
Friend - Beverly Bennett
Ambulance Attendant - Ed Bishop
Friend - Angela Bradley
Teenager - Jean Carnt
Teenager - Jean Collins
Dr. Frankenstein (archive footage) - Peter Cushing
Dark-Haired Teenager - Jennifer Dodd
Friend - Anne Flack
Mona Farlow - Susanne Gibbs
Teenager - Jacqueline Harris
Jack Brewster - James B. Harris
Cute Girl - Loraine Hart
Police Conference Delegate - Walter Henry
Friend - Gloria Johnson
Friend - Jenny Jones
French-Spanish Girl - Lilian Keeton
Man in Mansion Interior - Stanley Kubrick
Roy - Eric Lane
Frankenstein's Creature (archive footage) - Christopher Lee
Louise - Isabelle Lucas
Friend - Coral Morphew
Girl - Jeanette Neale
Dark Girl - Maria Nicholas
Police Conference Delegate - Jim O'Brady
Kenny Oberton - Robert C. Overton
Blonde Girl - Sonya Petrie
Teenager - Jacqueline Poole
Rex - Craig Sams
Lorna - Roberta Shore
Stagehand - Guy Standeven
Friend - Marti Webb