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Title: back when smut was smut, & we LIKED it that way!
Review: james mason and peter sellers are competing pederasts, vying for the affections of teenage nymphet (remember that word?) sue lyon. having never read the nabokov novel (the author wrote the screenplay in a rare moment of hollywood wisdom), i dont know how far this strays from the book, but the movie had to be pretty heady stuff for 1962 (unlike "mondo cane". mom & dad did NOT take 8 year old me to see this one). the movie does carry touches of director stanley kubricks to-be-expected mordant humor, and one wonders how different it might have been if made a mere 5 years later. still, second rate kubrick IS first rate anyone else, so ...
