Scott made her final film appearance in her second comedy noir, "Pulp" (1972), alongside Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney in a nostalgic pastiche of noir tropes. The director and screenwriter, Mike Hodges, spent a long time coaxing Scott out of retirement to fly to Malta for the shooting. Scott said that while she enjoyed Malta, she was not pleased that most of her footage was cut out—eight scenes in all. Hodges for his part reported that Scott was challenging to work with while shooting and struggled with nerves. Despite disagreements among the cast, crew, and past critics, "Pulp", as with the 1949 "Too Late for Tears", is considered an artistic success by film historians.