Stanley Kubrick Collection (Stanley Kubrick) (Blu-ray / Box Set)

Collection of seven films from celebrated director Stanley Kubrick. In 'Lolita' 1962, an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel, Humbert Humbert James Mason is a fastidious, middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze Shelley Winters he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita Sue Lyon, the woman's teenaged daughter. In fact, his passion for the girl becomes so overwhelming that he is willing to accept Charlotte's intimations of marriage just in order to be close to her daughter. Humbert then plots to spend more and more time alone with Lolita, but his pursuit of his obsession soon becomes such that it leaves all their lives damaged. In '2001 - a Space Odyssey' 1968, at the dawn of mankind, a tribe of ape-like beings are visited on Earth by a large black monolith. Thousands of years later, in the year 2001, scientist Dr Heywood Floyd William Sylvester discovers a similar black monolith on the moon, which then emits a signal aimed at the planet Jupiter. A year later, astronauts David Bowman Keir Dullea and Frank Poole Gary Lockwood are en route to Jupiter to investigate the signal's destination and purpose. However, their mission comes under threat when the ship computer, HAL voiced by Douglas Rain, seemingly develops a malfunction. Kubrick's controversial crime drama 'A Clockwork Orange' 1971 supposedly triggered copycat violence on its initial
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