Roat - one of the all time great movie villains

I'm always surprised that Alan Arkin's Harry Roat doesn't make it into many lists of the great movie villains. Watching it in the early '70s, I was thoroughly chilled and repelled by him, with his faux-solicitous manner toward Suzy and his confidence that he is in control. He had the advantage of stalking the most sympathetic possible victim - a blind Audrey Hepburn - and he invented the "oh- he wasn't REALLY dead!" maneuver, often imitated, but never equalled in shock effect. (The woman sitting next to me was nearly jolted into my lap - and she wasn't a small woman.) Roat stayed my touchstone for film villainy, at least until Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet," who also chilled and repelled me. But on second thought, in a contest between the two I think Roat would taken Frank's measure - and then taken him down.