Newly arrived in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, European emigre Humbert Humbert is smitten. He plans to marry Charlotte Haze. That way he'll always be close to his dear one--Charlotte's precocious daughter! Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick explores the theme of sexual obsession ( a subject he would revisit 37 years later in EYES WIDE SHUT) with this darkly comic and deeply moving version of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. James Mason plays devious, deluded Humbert: wedded to needy Charlotte (Shelly Winters); rivaled by the ubiquitous Claire Quilty (chameleonlike Peter Sellers); and enraptured to his gelatinous core by the blithe teen (Sue Lyon) with that "lovely, lyrical, lilting name"--LOLITA.