Film

Lolita

1962 · 2h 34m · Drama

How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?

IMDb

7.5

Rotten Tomatoes

89%

Metacritic

79

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

James Mason

Prof. Humbert Humbert

Shelley Winters

Charlotte Haze

Sue Lyon

Dolores "Lolita" Haze

Gary Cockrell

Richard T. "Dick" Siller

Jerry Stovin

John Farlow

Diana Decker

Jean Farlow

Lois Maxwell

Nurse Mary Lore

Cec Linder

Physician

Bill Greene

George Swine

Shirley Douglas

Mrs. Starch

Marianne Stone

Vivian Darkbloom

Marion Mathie

Miss Lebone

James Dyrenforth

Frederick Beale Sr.

Maxine Holden

Miss Fromkiss

John Harrison

Tom

Colin Maitland

Charlie Sedgewick

• Stanley KubrickDirector
• Vladimir NabokovScreenplay · Novel
• James B. HarrisProducer
• Eliot HymanExecutive Producer
• Oswald MorrisDirector of Photography
• Robert GaffneyDirector of Photography
• Nelson RiddleOriginal Music Composer
• Anthony HarveyEditor
• James LiggatCasting

Original TrailerOriginal Theatrical Trailer

Release date

June 13, 1962

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 34m

Rated

NR

Budget

$2,000,000

Revenue

$9,250,000

Genres

Drama

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