Classic Film Series, Fall 1996


LOLITA

September 27, 1996, 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue


American, 1962, 152 minutes, black-and-white
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Starring James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon

A middle-aged novelist falls passionately in love with a young girl and rents a room in her mother's house. The screenplay for this bizarre film of murder and lust is credited to Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote the lengendary novel of the same name.