Lolita (1962 movie)

Lolita (1962) is a film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. The performances by James Mason, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers, as well as Kubrick's direction, are generally acclaimed, but the film is not seen by most as living up to the novel.

Although the screenplay is credited to Nabokov, very little of the screenplay he had provided (and that was later published in a shortened version) was used. Nabokov remained polite about the film in public, but in his diary wrote that it was "a scenic drive as perceived by the horizontal passenger of an ambulance".

Bibliography

Richard Corliss , Lolita (London, British Film Institute, 1994; ISBN 0-85170-368-2). A witty exploration of the film, patterned on Pale Fire.

Source

• Quote from Nabokov's diary, and the relation between proposed and actual screenplay: Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991).