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Kill the Poker Player

1972 film by Mario Bianchi

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ1569010 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kill the Poker Player (Italian: Hai sbagliato... dovevi uccidermi subito!) is a 1972 Italian western film directed by Mario Bianchi and starred by Robert Woods, Ivano Staccioli and Nieves Navarro. It was scored by Carlo Savina and written by Mario Bianchi, Paola Bianchini and Luis G de Blain. It has been described as a mix between western, giallo and horror.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kill the Poker Player” as 1972 film by Mario Bianchi. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Kill, Poker and Player can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1972 film by Mario Bianchi. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1569010. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kill the Poker Player”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kill the Poker Player primary sources, Kill the Poker Player archive and Kill research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kill the Poker Player”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kill the Poker Player” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.