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.
科幻版荒岛求生。特效蛮假。但是有可爱毛毛狗和机器狗诶！！！
以为是阿西莫夫式的，结果是雷布拉德伯里式。包含隐喻的温情诗篇。这是面，里子反而有点对标科马克麦卡锡的《路》，都是父子的末日公路之旅，午夜熄灯逃亡也极像。想我们家狗子。
Welcome my son welcome to the machine
温情的末世小品，忽略掉微微突兀的加州情怀（？），都很好。
末日废土上的公路逃难，像极了《荒野生存》《老人与海》《我是传奇》中孤独求生的故事。太阳耀斑爆发，人类与人工智能、动物之间缔结了比人与人之间还相互信赖的依存关系。呆萌纯真、充满好奇心、喜欢效仿“大人”、热爱探索又到处闯祸的杰夫像极了为救大哥而被迫出生的二宝，必须要早熟、懂事、甘于奉献又要磨灭自我。几处伏笔差点以为要黑化，幸好一路治愈到底。人类文明的荒原上再现蝴蝶蹁跹，芬奇穿起正装在太阳伞下与杰夫聊天，那一段拍得实在太美。汉克斯真是老天爷赏饭，从疫情中脱险后连脸上的沟壑都会演戏。
“小孩就像动物一样，他只是想跟你make friends”就如当年MJ的这句话一样，初生的Jeff就像小童一样，对一切好奇对一切表示出善意与信任。而Finch收养小狗，是他希望保留人性最好的一面，而Jeff是人性这一面的守护者。数据虽然能告诉你很多信息，但人还是需要去体验一些诗意般的没好。Jeff就想孩子一样，他不懂欺骗为何物，以至他一直问Finch建立信任是什么，Finch让他跟小狗建立关系，其实就是一种信任建设。这部公路片实际上跟龙猫一样，他是一部童真，很棒的育儿片。
我们都终将老去，唯一可以留给孩子的是教予一生的经验，和经历的故事。
太温情了，治愈人心。一老头，一狗，一机器。最后也感动到了
末世蝴蝶，梦回《我是传奇》。（人类对于机器人美化或魔化，我都不介意。“有趣”的是汤姆·汉克斯——从美国梦到美国梦碎。）
Do you understand？ understood.
披着科幻外衣的公路片，核心是信任问题。机器人和狗子都能产生信任，人与人间为什么不可以？正因为是人与人之间，才更难取得信任。信任的前景是柳暗花明，浅显无比的象征能给我们多少安慰？不是耀斑，人终究是自己毁了自己。
好故事永远是第一要议，永远能拉高你对电影的印象分。情感朴素思想先进创意加分。一步一步走到最后，想不被打动都难。观众最终都被创作者严丝合缝的捕获。
Jeff演技真的好好。比很多真人演员都好啊，怎么办到的。//就是杜威走得太突然了，啊不会说话但是一直默默做事还贡献了自己眼睛的杜威啊。
合格类型片，只要结尾够感动，观众可以忘记前面光铺垫不点炮一笔带过不深挖的剧情。我比较纠结的点是臭氧层破了气温升高，地表还能不能维持一个大气压，有没有臭氧层的区域这么大温差会不会导致刮大风。浅归浅，还是有它诗意的部分。Jeff的口音太像波拉特了，我看老外也都这么说，我一直脑补Jeff说she is my sister。音乐居然是Gustavo Santaolalla写的，完全没有他以前让他扬名立万的拉丁探戈风格。
我永远喜欢看一片白纸的灵魂探索世界的故事～制造机器人有些俗套（隔壁的超能查派！），不过这样旧点子新包装的公路片倒也不错。
汤姆汉克斯一人独挑大梁, 演技细腻真的不一般. 文艺向.
机器人杰夫虽然没有面部表情，但整个肢体都在表演，好萌！世界末日，一人一狗，一机器人一机器狗，可惜机器狗半路报废了，不然芬奇死后，杰夫一人带着两狗也能挺热闹，而且good year早晚也得走，那时杰夫还能继续有个伴儿，不过，结尾挺阳光的，一人一狗应该还会遇到好人吧。
电影里女人和孩子都死了，因为要抢食物。
感谢汤姆汉克斯的角色死得早，他不死我要抓狂。
1、末日之下的温情，有人有狗有机器，简单的故事也有真挚的情感表达；2、人性的复杂或人性之恶是隐藏在故事潜层的游魂，所以头脑简单的机器人和无意识的小狗更显得弥足珍贵，但故事的最后又指向了人的和谐，残存的人性之光是它们未来的追寻。
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