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The Return of Daniel Boone

film directed by Lambert Hillyer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ61450841 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Return of Daniel Boone is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Paul Franklin and Joseph Hoffman. The film stars Wild Bill Elliott, Betty Miles, Dub Taylor, Ray Bennett, Walter Soderling and Carl Stockdale. The film was released on May 7, 1941, by Columbia Pictures.

Plot

Leach Killgrain conspires with the mayor to create conditions where all the ranchers in the county would have no option but to sell their land. He plans to buy all that land cheaply. But some individuals stand up to him and try to expose Killgrain's scheme.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Return of Daniel Boone” as film directed by Lambert Hillyer. 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—1941—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941. The account is most persuasive where Return, Daniel and Boone can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61450841. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Return of Daniel Boone” 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.