After a mutually exhausting struggle for it, Quilty, now insane with fear, merely responds politely as Humbert repeatedly shoots him. Quilty goes mad when Humbert points a gun at him. Humbert Humbert (James Mason) a 40-something British professor of French literature, arrives at the masion which is ramsacked from an apparently wild party the night before and finds the insane and debauched Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers), whom is not only suffering from some kind of severe dementia, but is also clearly drunk, as he babbles on incoherently and does not seem to remember Humbert from a time ago. The film begins in a quarrell between two men at a remote mansion. As things begin to go Humbert's way, he is unaware that Charlotte is not the only thing standing in his way between him and Lolita, that other thing being Lolita's possible interest in other boys, and other members of the male sex, young or old, who may have their own designs on Lolita. In that new arrangement, Humbert has to figure out how to achieve his goal of being with Lolita with Charlotte out of the way. As the summer progresses, Humbert, based on the circumstances, decides to enter into a relationship with Charlotte just to be near Lolita. While Charlotte does whatever she can to be alone with Humbert, Humbert does the same with Lolita. He will also learn that Charlotte has the exact same feelings for him. He is immediately infatuated with Lolita, with who he becomes obsessed in a sexual manner despite her age, she being just into her teens. Humbert considers Charlotte a proverbial "joke" but decides to rent the room upon meeting Charlotte's provocative daughter, Dolores Haze - more frequently referred to as Lolita - who he first spots in a bikini tanning in the back yard. Those airs also mask being lonely, especially as she is a sexually aggressive and liberated woman. Among the demonstration of those airs is throwing around the name of Clare Quilty, a television and stage script writer, who came to speak at her women's club meeting and who she implies is now a friend. He finds that Charlotte, widowed now for seven years, is a woman who puts on airs. He is given the name of Charlotte Haze as someone who is renting a room in her home for the summer. Before he begins his post in the fall, he decides to spend the summer in the resort town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire. Middle aged Humbert, a European, arrives in the United States where he has secured at job at Beardsley College in Beardsley, Ohio as a Professor of French Literature. The events that led to this standoff began four years earlier. Humbert Humbert forces a confrontation with a man, whose name he has just recently learned, in this man's home.
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