Christine (1983 film) the front seat. At the end of the shift, the line supervisor notices the worker slumped in the seat and opens the door; the worker falls to the floor dead, a look of terror on his face. Twenty-one years later, in September 1978, Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is an awkward and unpopular teenager in Rockbridge, California, with only one friend, football player Dennis Guilder. Arnie's life begins to change when he buys a used, badly battered red-and-white 1958 Plymouth Fury named "Christine" (the same car from the assembly plant) from George LeBay, brother of the orignial owner Roland LeBay (who is
Christine Finn the leading female role, Barbara Judd, in the science-fiction horror serial "Quatermass and the Pit" (1958–59). Finn's career as a film actress, other than providing voices for two films based on "Thunderbirds", did not develop further. During Hammer Films' preparations for a film version of "Quatermass and the Pit", Barbara Shelley was cast as Judd, although Nigel Kneale, the writer of the "Quatermass" series, preferred Finn's performance. In a book about his work, written by Andy Murray, Kneale recalled: "I'd liked Christine very much ... but she wasn't the kind of screen star that Hammer wanted. So we got Barbara