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...novel Lolita traced the carnal pursuit of a twelve-year-old American nymphet by a middle-aged European émigré named Humbert Humbert, and the rather Electrafying relationship that developed between the stepfather-seducer and the child-mistress. The book's last scene is the movie's first. Moving numbly through a Hollywood-style mansion full of bottles, harps, glasses, statues, bot tles, grand pianos, glasses, sheeted furniture and an incongruous pingpong table...
...Humbert (James Mason) plunks bullet after bullet into the drunk and glibly pro testing Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers), a TV playwright who stole Humbert's Lolita from him but did not keep her. In the book, the shooting of Quilty was eerily comic; in the film, despite the inspired foolery of Sellers, the scene is awkwardly and ominously facetious...
...Miller's worst play, A View From the Bridge; who knows why (but don't get us wrong; we love Hollywood). At the Fenway (KE 6-0610),we would revert to our former mode of discourse to note that The Markis as dull as a film about a leching Humbert-type can be. Finally, at the Sack (CO 7-9030), Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness reek of Absence de Gout (perfume and toilet water respectively) in A Majority...
...Humbert Foucheval (played by author Lance Morrow) stole the bread from his church's altar when he was young, and has been playing out a whole series of Mr. Morrow's fantasies ever since. His obsession is carving a mountain into an equestrian status of Crazy Horse, which represents, among other things, a desire to resurrect the noble barbarian, a wish to imprison God in stone and thus kill him, and a hope of consecrating the stone of the mountain. I know all these things, because Morrow has written them into the monologue that constitutes the last quarter...
...same bill, Peter Lorre plays a homicidal Humbert Humbert in "M," a German expressionist film that was shown here last spring. It's well worth seeing again, especially since Zero for Conduct plays with...