The Comeback (1978)

06/16/1978Horror, Mystery1h 40m
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Millions loved him, could someone hate him enough to kill and kill again?

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jack Jones

    Nick Cooper

  2. Cast 1

    Pamela Stephenson

    Linda Everett

  3. Cast 1

    David Doyle

    Webster Jones

  4. Cast 1

    Richard Johnson

    Psychiatrist

  5. Cast 1

    Holly Palance

    Gail

  6. Cast 1

    Sheila Keith

    Mrs. B

  7. Cast 1

    Bill Owen

    Mr. B

  8. Peter Turner

    Harry Cunningham

  9. Cast 1

    June Chadwick

    Nurse

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. ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

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