"I don't believe I have the stomach for it." (Image by Ed Fitzgerald.)

From the Letters to the Editor section of the April 21, 1972 Life magazine:

“Sirs: Richard Schickel gives The Godfather a pretty darn good review (‘The Resurrection of Don Brando,’ March 31), one that would likely send me to see this movie. But then I read another opinion in the local paper (‘Somehow I don’t find rape entertaining, murder funny or violence acceptable’). I feel sure I would see The Godfather as this critic did and I don’t believe I have the stomach for it.–Claude Ash, Havertown, PA.“