Christine (1983 film) it; and Roland eventually did the same. George also tells Dennis that Roland tried to get rid of Christine after Roland's wife died in the car, but Christine "came back three weeks later." During a football game, Dennis becomes distracted by the sight of Arnie kissing his new girlfriend, Leigh Cabot (the new girl in school) in front of Christine and is tackled, suffering a career ending injury. On a rainy evening at a drive-in movie, Christine's windshield wipers stop working. Arnie goes outside to try to get them working again and while he's outside the car Leigh begins to
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