Word: nymphets
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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...
Then she tries to portray the nymphet Juliet. Now Sarah Bernhardt, Miss Marriott, and Siobhan McKenna have all played the role of Hamlet (the last with a good deal of success, I can personally testify). But then Miss Hayes comes along trying to be Ulysses, of all things--and with Evans sitting not five feet away...
Lolita has lost her nymphet rating since she left the perverse and remarkable novel by Vladimir Nabokov, and the resulting film romance between a knowing, nubile teen-ager (Sue Lyon) and a middle-aged emigre (James Mason) is commonplace and flaccid. Peter Sellers provides much-needed comic relief...
Lolita has lost her nymphet rating since she left the perverse and remarkable novel by Vladimir Nabokov, and the resulting film romance between teen-ager (Sue Lyon) and a middle-aged emigré (James Mason) is commonplace and flaccid. Peter Sellers provides much-needed comic relief...
...part to a girl of 14 who looks a round 17. Making her movie debut, Teen-Ager Lyon is simply overmatched by the demands of her part. She acts knowing rather than sexy, and she lacks what Nabokov himself has defined as the "demoniac" essence of the near adolescent nymphet, an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm...