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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: June 13, 1962 |
Starring:
Bill Greene, Cec Linder, Diana Decker, Gary Cockrell, James Mason, Jerry Stovin, Lois Maxwell, Shelley Winters, Shirley Douglas, Sue Lyon
Summary:
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.
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Brilliant adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 20th Century comic-erotic classic. [08 Jul 2005, p.C2]
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s wicked, witty hymn to forbidden love loses some bite in the journey from novel to the screen, but it’s got its plummy pleasures, including a wonderfully subtle James Mason as Humbert Humbert, obsessed with the delicious Sue Lyon as the 14-year-old Lolita (bumped up from 12 in the book), and a marvelously blowzy Shelley Winters, hilarious as Lolita’s sexually voracious mom.
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Kubrick goes through the motions with a hula hoop and the munching of potato chips, but there is nothing intuitive or abandoned about the man-nymphet relationship. The Director's heart is apparently elsewhere. [05 Jul 1962, p.11]
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