Based on the mystery novel by Sebastien Japrisot, directed my French master filmmaker Rene Clement (IS PARIS BURNING?) and set in a sleepy resort in the South of France, RIDER ON THE RAIN follows Mellie (Marlene Jobert TO CATCH A SPY, a beautiful young woman who finds herself stalked by a masked assailant. When the fiend rapes Mellie the terrified woman shoots him dead in self defence but her troubles do not end there. Assigned with investigating the death of the attacker, American military officer Dobbs (Charles Bronson DEATH WISH) accuses Mellie of murder and the theft of a large quantity of government funds he had been carrying…