Lolita

Resource Information

The work Lolita represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Lolita

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; in association with Seven Arts Productions ; James B. Harris & Stanley Kubrick's ; screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov based on his novel ; produced by James B. Harris ; directed by Stanley Kubrick

Title variation

Stanley Kubrick's Lolita

Contributor

• Lyon, Sue, 1946-2019,
• Harris, James B., 1928-
• Lyon, Sue, 1946-2019,
• Kubrick, Stanley,
• Seven Arts Productions
• Seven Arts Productions
• Mason, James, 1909-1984,
• Mason, James, 1909-1984,
• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
• Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980,
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980,
• Winters, Shelley,
• Winters, Shelley,
• Harris, James B., 1928-
• Kubrick, Stanley,

Actor

• Mason, James, 1909-1984,
• Mason, James, 1909-1984,
• Lyon, Sue, 1946-2019,
• Lyon, Sue, 1946-2019,
• Winters, Shelley,
• Winters, Shelley,
• Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980,
• Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980,

Director

• Kubrick, Stanley,
• Kubrick, Stanley,

Producer

• Harris, James B., 1928-
• Harris, James B., 1928-

Subject

• Feature films
• Feature films
• Video recordings
• Video recordings

Genre

• Feature films
• Video recordings

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• por
• eng

Summary

Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed into a black comedy and murder mystery. The film lacks the element that enabled most readers to understand the novel--Humbert Humbert's exquisite inner voice. As a consequence the film is big, luxurious, and full of a barren, cold humor, yet a visual tour-de-force in elegant black-and-white

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editor, Anthony Harvey ; music composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle ; "Lolita" theme by Bob Harris

Language note

In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese; closed captioned

PerformerNote

James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell, Jerry Stovin, Diana Decker, Lois Maxwell, Cec Linder, Bill Greene, Shirley Douglas, Marianne Stone, Marion Mathie, James Dyrenforth, Maxine Holden, John Harrison, Colin Maitland, Terence Kilburn, C. Denier Warren, Roland Brand, Peter Sellers

Runtime

153

Technique

live action