Stanley Kubrick approached Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial erotic novel about the only way he could have in 1962: By stressing the humor in the story rather than the sexual elements, and by aging the character of Lolita, played by Sue Lyon, a few years to make her a bit less of a nymphet. James Mason plays the professor who’s come completely undone by his attraction to the young girl, Shelley Winters plays her abrasive mother, and Peter Sellers, in a movie-stealing role, plays… well, just watch.