Robert Fuest’s And Soon the Darkness (1970)

David L Rattigan dissects a sequence from And Soon the Darkness, the 1970 thriller directed by Robert Fuest, who died on March 21, 2012 Two holidaying English nurses are cycling through the French countryside, via long stretches of road, with vast fields on each side and a blue sky overhead. Having had breakfast in a small but populated town – “It’s not exactly swinging,” quips Cathy, “but it is dangling” – they are back on the road. Cathy has become quite taken with a handsome stranger from the town. She ogles him with impunity over breakfast. He overtakes them on…