'Lolita'

James Mason is so dreamy.

As I continue to watch more and more of the films I need to see before I die, and I delve further and further into the films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, it's clear how gutsy and and down-right dirty filmmakers were.

Films like "The Philadelphia Story" and "Some Like It Hot" are filled with innuendo and just straight-up sex jokes. Making intercourse so coarse and vulgar.

Then a two-and-a-half hour film about pedophilia. In 1962. Geez. In three more years members of the public would be burning Beatles records.

By the way, Shelley Winters is a pure nut. She's so good on film you get the feeling she was kind of like that in real life.