Unlike his novel Nabokov wrote this screenplay as an acerbic dark comedy. What makes this work are brilliant performances all around. James Mason is sympathetic, Peter Sellers - vile, Sue Lyon - totally believable as scheming ingenue.
This review of Lolita (1962) was written by Shireen Z on 23 Sep 2008.
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