Information about director Stanley Kubrick . Kubrick's theme isn't the seduction of the innocent as much as the ferocity of the laws against dating the underaged. Humbert is played by James Mason, that handsome Celt with the most mellifluous accent ever heard in the movies. He's hilariously undignified being tied in knots by his love object and by the slippery Clare Quilty, a fellow pedophile who senses Humbert's guilty secret and pursues the illicit couple. It could double for the sets of shows like Father Knows Best .
Irons also objects to the lack of explicitness.
I'm glad the gates opened. They can open further, as far as I'm concerned. But there are pleasures in delicacy, in watching movies in which everything has been cut but the hinting. I love the explicit, but I love suggestiveness too. It's not the sex itself, not the robbery of some sort of vague innocence.