Laurence Harvey: he of the glazed eye,
who could stay under hypnosis
for the length of an entire film.
Who turns playing solitaire
into a dangerous game.
A below the surface kind of guy.
More intense than Dirk Bogarde,
less mannered than James Mason.
A bit of a Hamlet
The quiet type who ends up murdering
his scene-stealing, scheming mother
and her sleazy boyfriend.
Who points even with his name
to another assassin –
the Lee Harvey Oswald yet to come.
— Elaine Equi