Lolita is an influential 1962 film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Lolita Haze and Shelly Winters as Charlotte Haze.Due to the MPAA's restrictions at the time, the film toned down the more perverse aspects of the novel, sometimes leaving much to the audience's imagination. The actress who played Lolita, Sue Lyon, was fourteen at the time of filming. Kubrick later commented that, had he realized how severe the censorship limitations were going to be, he probably never would have made the film.Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love. However, Humbert's affections shall be rivaled by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.Lolita is one of Stanley Kubrick's masterpieces and the film is the best example of pedophilia on film.Now a days the term Lolita has been used to describe beautiful underage temptresses.Even in the media celebrities like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan have been called Lolitas.
