Lolita / 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.

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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 indus...

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Uniform Title:Lolita (Motion picture : 1962)
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Seven Arts Productions
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors: Kubrick, Stanley (Director)
Harris, James B., 1928- (Producer)
Mason, James, 1909-1984 (Actor)
Winters, Shelley (Actor)
Lyon, Sue, 1946-2019 (Actor)
Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980 (Actor)
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977
Language:English
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese; closed captioned.
Published: Beverly Hills, CA : Burbank, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2007.
Edition:Widescreen.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Middle-aged men > Drama.
Teenage girls > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Man-woman relationships.
Middle-aged men.
Teenage girls.
Feature films.
Dark comedy > Feature.
Adaptation > feature.
Drama.
Dark comedy films.
Genre:
Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Dark comedy
Adaptation
Dark comedy films.
Feature.
feature.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (153 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Stanley Kubrick's Lolita.
Format: Video DVD
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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.
Note:Based on the novel "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
Originally produced as an English motion picture in 1961; released in 1962.
Special features: Awards [text feature]; Theatrical trailer (1 min.).
Videorecording.
Call Number:CQ2 D0086681 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA Rating: Not rated; Canadian Home Video Rating: Rated 14A.
ISBN:141986372X
9781419863721
Credits:Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editor, Anthony Harvey ; music composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle ; "Lolita" theme by Bob Harris ; art director, Bill Andrews.
System Details:DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital mono; widescreen presentation preserving the aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition.
Cast:
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.