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Lolita. A baby-satyr (James Mason) and a pseudo nymphet (Sue Lyon) are featured in this witless wonder that resembles no book of Nabokov...
...bags for them.) After his Army discharge, David, now 30, began wondering what career to follow. The decision had in fact been made ten years before during a weekend visit to the Ottawa home of an old Rockefeller family friend and adviser, Canada's late Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. King strongly advised David to follow his bent for economics and foreign affairs by becoming an international banker.* The bank was easy to choose: David's uncle, Winthrop Aldrich, had headed the Chase since the early 19305. In 1946 Rockefeller joined the Chase staff as assistant manager...
Lolita. Any resemblance between this film and the novel is accidental and inconsequential. The partners in this esthetic crime include Author-Scripter Nabokov, Director Stanley Kubrick and Co-Leads James Mason and Sue Lyon. Peter Sellers saves some scenes, and might have saved the movie if only he had been cast as Humbert...
Lolita. Any resemblance between this film and the novel is accidental and inconsequential. The partners in this esthetic crime include Author-Scripter Nabokov, Director Stanley Kubrick, and Co-Leads James Mason and Sue Lyon. The genius of Peter Sellers saves some scenes, and might have saved the movie if he had been cast as Humbert Humbert...
Lolita, as Sue Lyon impersonates her, could be 17, which is ancient for mymphets. As a result, James Mason's obsession with her seems like just one last pathetic middle-aged man's fling. Peter Sellers saves the scenes he steals...