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Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better

1968 film by Osvaldo Civirani

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1232023 ↗
Source-derived summary

Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better (Italian: T'ammazzo!... Raccomandati a Dio, also known as Dead for a Dollar and I'll Kill You, and Recommend You to God) is a 1968 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Osvaldo Civirani.

Cast

George Hilton: Glenn Reno

John Ireland: The Colonel

Sandra Milo: Liz

Piero Vida: The Portuguese

Gordon Mitchell: Roy Fulton

Franco Ressel: Hartmann

Mimmo Palmara: Nick (credited as Dick Palmer)

Andrea Scotti: Higgins

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Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better” as 1968 film by Osvaldo Civirani. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Trusting, Good and Shooting.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Trusting, Good and Shooting providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better”, the useful work is to connect “1968 film by Osvaldo Civirani” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1232023. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better” 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.