“How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” read the tagline. Kubrick’s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel captures the author’s black humor with ghoulish understatement. James Mason is deliciously cast as Humbert Humbert, the college professor who marries a lonely widow (Shelley Winters) purely out of lust for her adolescent daughter (Sue Lyon). Humbert’s prurient passion is fed by its constraints, and rather than made explicit, Lolita’s pubescent sexuality is aptly intimated (through the painting of toenails, and those famous sunglasses). Peter Sellers as Humbert’s foil, Quilty, plays several sinister characters in one. Nabokov wrote the screenplay for this film, which, as an American satire, is as profound as the novel’s unforgettable cross-country motel tour-de-farce.