I hadn't seen this film in decades, but a rewatch showed it still packed an over-the-top punch. Jack Jones is pop singer Nick Cooper, who has been on a six year hiatus from recording at the insistence of his wife Gail (Holly Palance). The couple has just divorced, and Nick decides to go back to recording for music executive Webster (David Doyle). Gail? Oh, Gail is savagely murdered in the estranged couple's London penthouse by a killer with a small scythe and sporting an old woman mask, and no one is around to find her body. Nick is put up in an English country house where the servants Mr. …
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The Comeback
1978 EN 100 min
Overview
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. His ex-wife is brutally murdered, and the killer may be stalking him next.
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Release date
16/06/1978
Votes
40
Popularity
2.0
Jack Jones
Nick Cooper
Pamela Stephenson
Linda Everett
David Doyle
Webster Jones
Richard Johnson
Psychiatrist
Holly Palance
Gail
Sheila Keith
Mrs. B
Bill Owen
Mr. B
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Peter Turner
Harry Cunningham
June Chadwick
Nurse
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Penny Irving
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Patrick Brock
Dr Paulsen
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Jeff Silk
Police Officer
David Hamilton
Radio DJ (voice) (uncredited)
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