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.
相比较前三部，感觉有点硬往里塞东西的嫌疑，不过也不失为一个轻松愉快的喜剧动漫电影
意外刷视频刷到的✘……就感觉……是把那种合家欢的缺点放大到了极致，人物间各种傻傻的矛盾激化简直蠢到极点……从第一部开始，这么棒的女主……这么绰的男的…
弟弟也太皮太可爱了吧www 香川叔真是活宝XD 奈奈出现好评！（三星半）
不容易啊，从第一部的惊艳到后两部的硬熬，第四部还能以互换身份这个角度去讲故事也是不容易，鼓励一下。
没看过前面直接来看最终章，虽然故事在意料之中，但依然在影院n次笑出了声，还有满心的暖暖。更期待1-3了！wt.吞吞
故事算是好看的，悬疑推理和喜剧拿捏得也算好，如同松本润的大眼长睫毛。可惜挂着“松竹”依然是部剧版SP的感觉。与影像质感息息相关，不过更重要的应该还是叙事策略。律师大翔的人设是擅长美食且随身永远带着各种小调料瓶，却对当年涉案的嫌疑人及村民们的酿造红酒的设定毫无判断与关注，甚至看起来毫不关心，只是因循他案件重演的拍摄，就有些笨拙，何况真相的揭露恰恰在于红酒在原始录像和取证照片时多少的差异。饰演小守的演员长得太秀气了，和王紫璇迷之撞脸，也因此能让人提前猜出真相。荣仓奈奈的作用就是回忆杀，和漫画少女的设定一样。电影总该有更多要求，趣味性的、表达的、突破的。所以，片子算好看，但还是个电视剧。
本作对于德古拉和乔纳森的和谐使出了互换身体这种老套路的方法，相对也是比较“无语”，幸亏，其它角色的插科打诨，折腾搞笑挽救了这最后一次德古拉一家的有趣生活。
知晓事件真相真的是对的么？真相也会伤人，但，说谎的人一定得不到救赎。
故事算是好看的，悬疑推理和喜剧拿捏得也算好，如同松本润的大眼长睫毛。可惜挂着“松竹”依然是部剧版SP的感觉。与影像质感息息相关，不过更重要的应该还是叙事策略。律师大翔的人设是擅长美食且随身永远带着各种小调料瓶，却对当年涉案的嫌疑人及村民们的酿造红酒的设定毫无判断与关注，甚至看起来毫不关心，只是因循他案件重演的拍摄，就有些笨拙，何况真相的揭露恰恰在于红酒在原始录像和取证照片时多少的差异。饰演小守的演员长得太秀气了，和王紫璇迷之撞脸，也因此能让人提前猜出真相。荣仓奈奈的作用就是回忆杀，和漫画少女的设定一样。电影总该有更多要求，趣味性的、表达的、突破的。所以，片子算好看，但还是个电视剧。
贩卖无厘头，直接导致似乎看了又好像没看的废话观影感。
松润谐星梗熟手👍🏻为啥高桥叔一出来我就想笑，道枝弟弟都长这么高了（可惜没以前灵了）——破案了我也狠狠无语了，除了最后真相大白以外，其实还可以
我真是烦死男女主了！一部比一部难看。。。要不是为了德古拉我才不会看到第四部(◦`~´◦)
德古拉和女儿都很可爱，但是女儿的这个人类男人真是从第一部到第四部每分钟都很傻逼…不知道这个系列的价值观到底是啥=_=
连续IP创作的难点就在于前后人物设定必须一致，这就是要带着枷锁跳舞，创作难度增加
为了两个小朋友的未来，全村人一起毁掉了一个家庭，呵呵。人年纪大了自然就不再年轻貌美了。挺一般的，也不像电影。
从电视剧改电影没毛病，有毛病的是电影里律师事务所里出了四五个主角。电视剧篇幅够可以一点点的讲清楚，电影就成群像了，但事件性那么强，根本没机会展示每个人，于是主角们就成了一坨。除了松本润在耍宝，真的很难记住什么。
所谓的为了保护一方伤害另一方，其实不过是村子的排外，都可以舍弃死去的人的真相。
多少有些平平无奇了。很中规中矩看开头就知道结尾的故事。笑点不算很多吧，我对喜剧片虐待丑角身体真的没什么爱。
不过制作整体挺好的，还是那个味道。
终于应该算是这个系列的完结篇了，毕竟孩子也有了，德古拉岳父也看人类女婿顺眼了，最后连精灵旅社都给了女婿和女儿继承，再不结束，也实在说不过去了！
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