After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
Assault is a 1971 British thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, and Lesley-Anne Down. The screenplay was by John Kruse based on the 1962 novel The Ravine by Phyllis Bretty Young and tells about a police attempt to track down a dangerous rapist/killer on the loose.
