Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 154 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
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.
- hotel
- depression
- lolita
- small town
- secret love
- based on novel or book
- sexual obsession
- summer camp
- midlife crisis
- loss of loved one
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Directed
- Stanley Kubrick
- Written
- Vladimir Nabokov
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 2,266 ratings
- Studio
- Seven Arts Productions, Harris Kubrick Pictures, A.A. Productions, Ltd., Anya Pictures, Transworld Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
