Helen Downing (Who's Harry Crumb?)

Plot
Helen Downing is played by 36 year old Annie Potts. Helen is married to an older and rich businessman with a beautiful young daughter who despises her. Helped by her tennis instructor and a private detective, she hatches a plot to kidnap her husbands older daughter and have the ransom all to herself.
Appearance, character and role in the story
Motivated strictly by money, Helen is a ruthless gold digger who spends the film, trying to get others to kill her rich husband, dressing in various sexy outfits, having sex with men in order to manipulate them and sexily smoking cigarettes.
Weapons
Helen uses her style of dress and feminine attraction to great effect.
Fate
Sitting on a plane with the money and on the verge of escape with her Tennis Instructor lover. She is confronted by Harry Crumb. He pulls a gun on Crumb who disarms and defeats him. Helen has a shocked look on her face as she knows she is caught. Her last scene is being led in handcuffs (with her hands behind her back) by Police out of the airport. Despite being captured, the end of her lavish lifestyle and facing several years in prison she performs her walk of shame with a defiant dignity.
Category:1980s
Category:Brunette
Category:Gold Digger
Category:Greedy
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Fate: Arrested
Category:Nail Polish
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Adulteress
Category:Smoker
Category:Bra and Panties
Category:Stockings or Nylons