LOLITA
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Stanley Kubrick made a lot of daringly bold movie choices – but simply choosing to try and adapt this hugely controversial Vladimir Nabokov novel for the screen, in the conservative era of 1961, was one of his boldest. The title character, in the book, was a 12-year-old nymphet. For the movies, Kubrick cast a 14-year-old actress, Sue Lyon – but sublimated and deflected the pedophilic subtext of the novel by stressing the comic and satiric elements, and handing those chores to Peter Sellers.