Lolita

When worldly, middle-aged professor Humbert Humbert rents a room from widowed Charlotte Haze, he quickly becomes obsessed with her young daughter, Lolita. Humbert goes so far as to marry Charlotte to be close to her daughter, but when Charlotte discovers her husband’s secret lust, the knowledge leads to her death. Now free to pursue his obsession with his willing, under-aged stepdaughter, Humbert seduces Lolita, unable to control a lust that will destroy him.

"The surprise of Lolita is how enjoyable it is: it’s the first new American comedy since those great days in the 1940’s when Preston Sturges recreated comedy with verbal slapstick. Lolita is black slapstick and at times it’s so far out that you gasp as you laugh. At its best (which is about half the time) it makes most of the “New American Cinema” look square. An inspired Peter Sellers creates a new comic pattern — a crazy quilt of psychological, sociological commentary so “hip” it’s surrealist. It doesn’t cover everything: there are structural weaknesses, the film falls apart, and there’s even a forced and humiliating attempt to “explain” the plot. But when the wit is galloping who’s going to look a gift horse in the mouth? Critics, who feel decay in their bones." (Pauline Kael, Partisan Review, Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall 1962)

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PRODUCTION AT THE TIME OF FILMING:
Harris Kubrick Pictures

CO-PRODUCTION AT THE TIME OF FILMING
A.A. Productions

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