Assault

Evil grows wild... nothing else lives very long.

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a reporter from one of the local papers, and against the wishes of a psychologist at the local hospital, a young teacher at the school the girls attended uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out. Could it be the creepy husband of the head mistress at the school, the psychologist who seems to be taking an unusual interest in the case, or something altogether more sinister?

Suzy Kendall

Julie West

Frank Finlay

Det. Chief Supt. Velyan

Freddie Jones

Reporter

James Laurenson

Greg Lomax

Lesley-Anne Down

Tessa Hurst

Tony Beckley

Leslie Sanford

Anthony Ainley

Mr. Bartell

Dilys Hamlett

Mrs. Sanford

James Cosmo

Det. Sgt. Beale

Marianne Stone

Matron

Allan Cuthbertson

Coroner

Kit Taylor

Doctor

Janet Lynn

Girl in Library

Patrick Jordan

Sgt. Milton

Anabel Littledale

Susan Miller

Tom Chatto

Police Doctor

Jan Butlin

Day Receptionist

William Hoyland

Chemist in Hospital