While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
虽然大部分还是常见的套路，但观感还是很不错的
这个套路确实是见过的，一开始就猜到了结尾，不过看的倒是挺欢乐的，适合给我表弟看。
挺解压的片子，狐狼组合好帅，结尾五个小朋友在我前面一起蹦迪哈哈哈。
虽然大部分还是常见的套路，但观感还是很不错的
今年目前看得最愉快的院线电影，老套但快乐！听到奥卡菲娜的声音很难不想起O8😢
很尬很幼稚 不值得去影院看 （ps 这片真的需要3D吗？如果是2D考虑多给一颗星……
那些大导们的自传系列，少年经历了许多，成就现在的自己。★★★☆/7.3
开场的偷盗就是克鲁尼11罗汉的场景，还算有点儿意思。
想来看索伦蒂诺的意大利和花老头，结果看了个童年回忆录。小卷毛长得像戏梦巴黎里的弟弟，笑的时候又像小蜘蛛。看完抑郁了，tm不就是现实太痛苦了我才来看电影的吗？！你就给我看这个？？？这不是往伤口上撒盐么？虽然人物塑造主观滤镜略重，但不影响杀伤力啊。。。
体内的荷尔蒙在撩动欲望，上帝的手则在拨弄命运。
这个故事告诉我们好人也要有锋芒，傻白甜不可取
老狼简直就是乔治克鲁尼量身定制，《十一罗汉》《碟中谍》的风格十足；剧情中规中矩，奥卡菲娜的口音辨识度太高了。7/10 “not bad” pun intended.
Petit film d'animation familial et sympa cherche à contre-courant (ou en suivant la tendance) à créer des anti-héros bien humains sous sa gentille forme de "Buddy Movie" policier mais finit par se ranger dans la case "stéréotype" avec une intrigue peu ou prou conventionnelle au twist pas vraiment surprenant.
固有印象的改变并非你做了好事还是坏事，而是取决于他人都主观臆断，他人的主观臆断取决于他受到的教育
平淡的电影，看之前没感觉，看后真实世界的背景声都在讲述这片土地的故事，怎么做到的？那一刻马拉多纳神明附体，电影结束了神性还在。
角色设定和小细节的设计可以说比疯狂动物城还要好。开篇非常实用且惊艳，但是后半段故事情节稍微平淡了一些，有些模式化。
7，故事越来越不思进取了，曾经解构童话“毁”童年的梦工厂早已不在了啊，倒是花活越发娴熟，新画风的视觉冲击力可以的，不过这白西装，这该死的魅力，克鲁尼yyds
68/100 不温不火，偶尔精致但缺乏真正的激情，别把费里尼拉到地面上去了。
pov: 你是一个动画学生怀着满腔热情踏入这个行业，最后在日薄西山的梦工厂做着流水线。
比故事本身更让我开心的事，是听到身边人笑得真实开心。愿开心常在。
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