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.
部分有点子沉重。
有两位父亲的十几岁少年制作了一部有关双亲的纪录片，却不料离奇的情节开始在他的家中真实上演。
②萤火虫女孩，童话故事。森林的小动物。
我觉得还是挺不错的，看的很开兴，可以打一个八分
男生女生的纯情演绝了，从浴室出来三个人相顾相拥...毫无疑问我们的爱诞生了你，每个你都曾经是家长爱的千丝万缕织就的...
外婆吃饭时下巴总往左边偏，因为只剩左边三颗牙。
挺优秀的绘本动画片。以简单的故事，童真的视角呈现/捕捉亲人之间/人与人之间细腻的情感，有力量，很温暖，很治愈。画风多为可爱，个别故事有戳到我。
四星，多一星给大屏幕上能看到这样电影的珍贵，这样淡淡的、生活的、是飞扬的也是温暖的小故事们。最喜欢老伯的糖水屋和最后一个。
不过分渲染悲伤，不刻意突出不幸，用幽默诙谐的方法讲一个又一个连环抓马。虽然碰上的都不是好事而且都在预料中但是我一边看一边笑，直呼过瘾。爸爸之间的爱或许消失转移了，即使里昂不是其中任何一位亲生的，但是爸爸们怎么会不爱里昂呢。里昂一直被爱，从开始到现在，被千丝万缕的爱缠绕、包裹。
这部动画电影真的好适合父母带着孩子去看！很温情、很治愈，也能轻而易举地唤起我对童年、父母长辈的思念之情。故事很接地气，很多故事情节都在自己身上真实地发生过。画风具有强烈而治愈的国风文学，希望以后我们国内的动画片发展会越来越好！
制作形式还不错。
画风好温柔，好可爱啊。不太喜欢讲道理的动画，也不属于故事性很强的动画，仲夏的时候吃着西瓜看，刚好
终于有人把我对彩虹未来担忧拍出来了。当代孕家族会不会和普通异性家族一样会有离婚、争娃的事件发生，孩子的未来是否会被影响，代孕娃是否会被社会歧视……虽然影片没有演出担忧，但我看完更加恐怖任何形式的婚姻。可能我是总是爱逃避的人吧，总觉得我hold不住彩虹家族的未来。
感觉很不错，剧情也很好，感兴趣的可以去看一下
后面有几个故事还不错，前面两个稍弱，可以给3.5🌟
將動畫電影單一地理解為一種兒童文類，是中國的動畫創作者時常身陷的一種窠臼。認為兒童“適合”觀看動畫作品的理由之一是，動畫形式比之真人電影更可能呈現一個真善美的、理想化的世界，但就這一國內首部原創繪本動畫短片集中的作品而言，凡是秉持此種思路來創作的，帶來的觀感也最差，例如〈小火車〉對心懷希望勇敢站起來的地震致殘兒童、〈翼娃子的星期天〉對每日淩晨五點隨父母出門打工仍樂此不疲的小學生的敘述，堪稱陳腐之至。〈糖水鋪〉和〈藍色鐵皮櫃輪椅〉是令人驚喜的短片，正因為它們並沒有試圖對現實生活的殘酷方面加以美化，而是把實際景况真誠地展示了出來。一位老友的短評自述，她四歲的女兒通過觀看〈輪椅〉首次開始思考“去世”是什麼意思、意味著什麼。大人們不應自作聰明地低估兒童對於影像和現實情境的接受能力。220118於金逸達鏢。
小火车的故事，很巧最近正好在看汶川的影像记忆，所以一开始就猜到了背景。
有很多不足，但是依然觉得中国动画有了希望。
原创绘本动画片整体质量真的很不错！！
最喜欢第六七章，纯粹地自我表达，更有感染力
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