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Lolita
As time passed Lolita, the most classical of Kubrick's films - first judged (often unfavourably) only in relation to Nabokov's literary masterpiece - was seen to fit ever more perfectly with the director's world view. The black comedy, the multiple impersonations of Peter Sellers as Quilty (shades of Dr Strangelove!), the sexual infatuation of Humbert Humbert for a nymphet and his descent into madness (an extraordinary performance by James Mason), brilliantly anticipated Kubrick’s future work.
