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.
虽然感觉这个题材可以更好，但确实也是近几年最好的一部了，肥嘟嘟左卫门真的是很情怀了
至于内涵，农夫与狼不觉得有深度，只觉得炒冷饭。
虽然涂鸦娜娜子一出现就猜到结局了，但是依旧感动，小新真的太棒了~
那厢的春晚，徒留一地吐槽……
近几年来最好的一部蜡笔小新，可以和大人帝国平起平坐了吧。
人类这个物种可真实千百年来从来没有变过呢，随便换一个会议主题都能成立
改编自真实事件，看的时候会引起很多对历史的思考
没有配乐，几乎没有场景转换，跟一群人在一场电影里开一场100分钟信息密度极大的会，却丝毫不觉得冗长乏味……回望历史，我们总是清醒的，但，身在当下，我们却经常把疯狂当做理智……
混淆是非颠倒黑白丧尽天良冠冕堂皇
在看这部电影之前，我推荐另外一部电影《恶魔的崛起》。
令我惊讶的是，这是第一次，蜡笔小新抨击了人性的阴暗面。
超赞的，最不正经的5岁男孩野原新之助，永远支持你！
影片脑洞大开，画面色彩斑斓，人物性格突出。剧情来讲有搞笑之时，有感动之处，涉及亲情友情，展现了勇敢、正义、团结等品格和精神，有相遇有离别，突出表现关于成长所要经历、面对和知道的一些东西，很有教育意义。
以一种系统性的体制机制管理运作的官僚行政系统的例行会议，来讨论种族灭绝和大屠杀，这才是不寒而栗的地方依然是一部具有强大历史意义的影像。
杀一个人是罪犯，杀十个人是悍匪，杀一百个人是悍将，杀一万个人便成了枭雄，杀几百万的人是纳粹。
小规模会议一分钟决定8000名妇女儿童的死刑方式。以严谨，克制，精准，地语言讨论丝毫不提杀人二字。
蜡笔小新之神笔马良：强扭的瓜不甜。
用来对抗世界的武器，终究还是我们最弱小的幼年时期，那些强大又生机勃勃的想象力。
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