Bemis

Christine (1983)

Actors: John Carpenter (composer), John Carpenter (director), Barry Bernardi (producer), Stephen King (writer), Alexandra Paul (actress), Alan Howarth (composer), Kelly Preston (actress), David Spielberg (actor), John Madden (actor), Harry Dean Stanton (actor), Bruce French (actor), John Stockwell (actor), Robert Prosky (actor), Peter J. Silbermann (miscellaneous crew), Richard Collier (actor),

Plot: Highschool geek Arnie Cunningham falls in love with "Christine", a bright red 1958 Plymouth Fury which has seen much better days. Setting himself the task of restoring the car to its original condition, his friends notice that the car is not the only thing that is changing. Arnie seems to spend more and more time with his car. He's also developed a sort of cocky arrogance which does not seem like the real Arnie at all.

Keywords: 1950s, 1970s, animate-car, anthropomorphic-car, automobile, based-on-novel, based-on-the-works-of-stephen-king, car, character-name-in-title, christmas
Genres: Drama, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: She'll possess you. Then destroy you. She's death on wheels. She's... Once she lures you behind her wheel...You're all hers. Body by Plymouth. Soul by Satan. Seductive. Passionate. Possessive. Say hello to Christine...Your Girlfriend The Car. Hell hath no Fury...like a 1958 Plymouth. How do you kill something that can't possibly be alive? She was born bad. Plain and simple. Somewhere deep on a darkened assembly line. Christine. A '58 Plymouth Fury possessed by Hell. She's taken control of her teenage owner, Arnie. Her previous owner is not alive to warn him. And now she's steering straight for the one person in her way. Arnie's girlfriend, Leigh. The other woman.

Quotes:

Leigh Cabot: God, I hate rock and roll.

Will Darnell: Ya know Pepper, ya can't polish a turd.

Rudolph Junkins: The kid was cut in half Arnie, they had to scrape his legs up with a shovel.::Arnie Cunningham: Well, isn't that what you're supposed to do with shit? Scrape it up with a little shovel?::Rudolph Junkins: Don't get smart with me, son. Your girlfriend is a hell of a lot more convincing than you are.::Arnie Cunningham: [laughs] She's not my girlfriend. And since when is it against the law to fix up your own car when somebody else busts it up, huh?::Rudolph Junkins: ...since never.::Arnie Cunningham: Then you get off my back.::Rudolph Junkins: [pause] Okay.::[Junkins walks away. Arnie rubs at the spot where Junkins leaned on Christine]

George LeBay: Her name's Christine.::Arnie Cunningham: I like that.::Dennis Guilder: Come on Arnie, we gotta get goin', huh?::George LeBay: My asshole brother bought her back in September '57. That's when you got your new model year, in September. Brand-new, she was. She had the smell of a brand-new car. That's just about the finest smell in the world, 'cept maybe for pussy.

Arnie Cunningham: Okay... show me.

Arnie Cunningham: Whoa, whoa. You better watch what you say about my car. She's real sensitive.

Bemis: She smiled at me. I want to have deep, meaningful sex with her.

Arnie Cunningham: Has it ever occurred to you that part of being a parent is tryin' to kill your kids?

[Arnie is pulling a worn out, smoking old Christine into Darnell's Do It Yourself garage as Darnell and Dennis look on]::Will Darnell: 'Kiddo, you sold him that piece of shit, you oughta be fuckin' ashamed of yourself.::Dennis Guilder: I didn't sell it to him. I tried to talk him out of it.::Will Darnell: You shoulda' tried harder.

[Will and Dennis are approaching Arnie who has just parked Christine in Will's garage]::Will Darnell: [to Dennis] I knew a guy had a car like that once. Fuckin' bastard killed himself in it. Son of a bitch was so mean, you could've poured boiling water down his throat and he would've pissed ice cubes!::[to Arnie]::Will Darnell: Okay. That's the last time you run that mechanical asshole in here without an exhaust hose... I catch you doing it one time, and you're out, you understand? HUH?::Arnie Cunningham: Yes, sir.::Will Darnell: And I'm gonna tell you something else right now. I don't take any shit from you kids. This place is for working stiffs gotta keep their cars running so they can keep bread on the table, it's not for rich-assed, snot-nose kids who wanna go dragging around on the Orange Belt. I don't allow no smoking in here, neither! You wanna' butt, you go out in the junkyard!::Arnie Cunningham: Oh, well I don't sm...::Will Darnell: [interrupting] Don't interrupt me, punk! Don't interrupt me, don't get smart!::Dennis Guilder: Uhh, sir?::Will Darnell: What?::Dennis Guilder: [points at Darnell's own men who are smoking at a card table] Those men over there smoking. You better tell then to stop.::Will Darnell: You trying to help your buddy right out of here, jerk?::Dennis Guilder: Nah.::Will Darnell: Then shut your pie-hole. I know a creep when I see one. I think I'm looking at one right now.::[turns back to Arnie]::Will Darnell: You're on probation... you get it? You screw around with me once, I don't care how much money you paid up in front, I'll throw you out on your ass! Now you got it? HUH?::Arnie Cunningham: Yessir, yessir.::Will Darnell: Good! Now, get the hell out of here, we're closed.

Counterfeit Lady (1936)

Actors: James Sweeney (editor), Ralph Bellamy (actor), Harry Bernard (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Bud Geary (actor), George McKay (actor), Charles R. Moore (actor), Gene Morgan (actor), George C. Pearce (actor), John Tyrrell (actor), Harold Shumate (writer), D. Ross Lederman (director), Philip Ahn (actor),

Plot: Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.

Keywords: 1930s, airliner, airport, b-movie, black-man, bus, bus-driver, chase, counterfeit, country-girl
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime,
Taglines: Privare sleuth...phoney gal...a mile-a-minute crooks tour of excitement! Plenty of excitement when a private sleuth trails a diamond and a dame---but finds only one phoney! I Neve Hit A Lady When She's Got A Gun In Her Hand! The perfect detective joins a gem of a thief in a crooks tour! "SWEETHEART, IT LOOKS LIKE MY NEXT PLEASANT TASK WILL BE TO SEARCH YOU!" (original print ad-all caps) A GIRL AFTER HIS OWN HEART - WITH A GUN! (original print ad-all caps)