This morning novelist and Oregonian contributor Shawn Levy tweeted this photo of Stanley Kubrick shooting Lolita sometime (I’m guessing) in the fall or winter of ’61. Except for some second-unit work in the States Lolita was shot entirely in England. Mobil’s Wiki page says it had a few gas stations there.
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Kubrick discussing a Lolita scene with Peter Sellers…kidding!
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