Lolita, Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Starring James Mason, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, 1962, 152 min, TV-14

The ads asked, “How’d they ever make a movie of Lolita?” Vladimar Nabakov’s brilliant novel about an older man’s lust for an underage girl. The answer: director Kubrick left Hollywood for the UK, where he worked the rest of his life.