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Lolita

on BBC Two England

starring
James Mason Peter Sellers
The extraordinary and passionate story of a middle-aged man's infatuation with the nymphet Lolita provided
James Mason with probably the finest role of his career. As Humbert Humbert - a seemingly mild-mannered academic - he decides that the only solution to his problem is to marry Lolita's appalling mother. The next problem is what to do with the mother in order to seduce Lolita ...
Adapted by the author from his best-selling novel, this is one of the blackest sex comedies of its decade and a film which has grown in stature since Kubrick directed it in 1962. Screenplay by VLADIMIR NABOKOV Produced by JAMES B. HARRIS Directed by STANLEY KUBRICK
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Contributors

Unknown:
James Mason
Unknown:
James Mason
Unknown:
Humbert Humbert
Unknown:
Vladimir Nabokov
Produced By:
James B. Harris
Directed By:
Stanley Kubrick
Humbert Humbert:
James Mason
Lolita Haze:
Sue Lyon
Charlotte Haze:
Shelley Winters
Clare Quilty:
Peter Sellers
Jean Farlow:
Diana Decker
John Farlow:
Jerry Stovin
Mona Farlow:
Suzanne Gibbs
Dick:
Gary Cockerell
Vivian Darkbloom:
Marianne Stone
Physician:
Cec Linder
Nurse Mary Lore:
Lois Maxwell
Swine:
William Greene
PottS:
C Denier Warren

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