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 Daaé of the silent film. Claude Rains played the phantom. In 1960, a Spanish society turned a very free adaptation of the subject under the title "El Fantasma de la Operetta" . In 1962, British production company Hammer Films focused on the horror genre. Another adaptation was produced in 1974 by 20th Century Fox, who moved the event to New York and significantly altered the story into more Faustian. This film was released as "Phantom of the Paradise", with Jessica Harper in the Christine-esque role of Phoenix, and William Finley as the eponymous Phantom. The 1989 version, with Robert Englund in