Originally Posted By: Turnbull
I think FFC and Puzo overdid Genco's cowardice in that scene


For a grocer to be afraid of someone he believes to be a ruthless gangster connected to even more ruthless gangsters doesn't strike me as cowardice, just common sense. By the time Vito did Fancucci in, he'd already moved from being a grocer to being in the same occupation as Fanucci.