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.
我单方面宣布Pete Docter是我soul mate，每一部都看得本人哭啊哭啊
When you try your best but you don't succeed, when you get what you want but not what you need.
换作是我，我可能也会像二十二一样选择躲在灵魂家园里，没有压力没有苦恼。可是当看到落日余晖下的城市，纷纷落落的秋叶，在这世间 还能感受蓝天白云下的微风，还能尝到清甜的水果糖味道，还有来自父母朋友的关怀，好像活这一次也可以了。
去的影院不好，3D太暗，最后看得我有点头疼。
终于明白我为啥不太喜欢动画片了，它始终相信对话的力量，坚信这是个解释和交流就能改变对方的世界。这很难让我信服。
一碗香浓美味的鸡汤。
要目送秋叶翩然归土，要为日落的绝美而泪目，也要因绿芽冒出土地而欣喜，对初升的朝阳跳跃欢呼。这些微末，也会令人觉得不虚此行、不枉一生。
就算我一无所有，只要我用心去感知这个世界，我便拥有了这个世界。
皮克斯给社畜们的一记温暖的摸头杀，献给所有焦虑的成年人。
稍稍超出预期，皮克斯的水平依旧令人放心，这次的国语配音挺棒的（毫无违和感）。享受当下，享受生活！
皮克斯的动画，依旧温暖人心。我们要找的不是目标，不是意义，只是热爱。不过整体完成度和画面比寻梦环游记差了点，后半段基本猜得到剧情，没有惊喜。
LSD will make you feel the truth
22就是我们咸鱼的代言人，我愿意称这为歌颂咸鱼的电影。只要过程是咸鱼得快乐，到最后渺小的一生都是由快乐的碎片组成。2020年最后一部在电影院看的电影了，刚好坐在影厅里唯一的小孩旁边，他妈妈和他讲解了一路他到最后也没看懂，又看到讨论说皮克斯把片尾原本计划的台词enjoy every minute of it里的enjoy改成live，观影的过程就已经体会到乐中带苦。。。
对于在糊口与理想之间迷失自我的成年人，这部电影与其说是心灵旅程不如说是灵魂拷问😂 这也可能是PIXAR电影里题材最贴近（对我而言的）现实生活的一部，虽然呈现的手法又充满了幻想色彩，这部动画的题材甚至很适合真人电影。唯一的缺憾在于我不太喜欢片中灵魂们的造型，略感幼稚，但现实生活的场景和人物处理都棒。
选择这个主题就已经值得10颗星,这才是当下每一个人应该看的电影，可惜排片太少，要看抓紧
不到四星吧。节奏掌控很棒，很工整，全程没有一处拖沓、潦草或者多余。对于抑郁患者而言找到Spark太难了，不是像前半的22那样看待所有尝试都很无趣，就是像后面的他那样陷入梦魇。也想下决心去活。
大部分时间我是不是也像joe一样看片追剧追番🤪最后变成迷失的灵魂？天呐，我只想每分每秒被有趣的故事麻醉上瘾🙃
活着本身拥有了人生的意义了，享受现下的每一刻，抓住的一片落叶，蔚蓝的天空，自己的朋友家人，有时候越纯粹越快乐。
感觉这部电影好像很久以前就已经出现在今时今刻就等着我们的到来，套路的催泪桥段还是没有意外的奏效了，甘之如饴（灵魂导师怎么都这么像Finder
道理确实就是这样，但大家就是怎么活都活不好。
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