Stanley KubrickCast
James Mason 
Sue Lyon Peter Sellers
Credits
Written by: Vladimir Nabokov
Plot
A professor is obsessed with his landlady's daughter.
Sinekatalog’s take
Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Nabokov tiptoes around the novel's shocking content. James Mason and Peter Sellers are brilliant, making it a darkly comic study of obsession, though it is tamer than the book.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (117,504 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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