在小镇上，一个年轻人游手好闲无所事事，于是他决定去纽约碰碰运气。影片讲述了1925年发生在美国西部牛仔的故事，风格搞笑幽默。 A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowbowy, being in his own way very sucessful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows....
基顿的魔法（原始的史前史），那种能从一切物质中透析出最纯粹的动态美丽的能力：一言以蔽之，就是“电影化”，不仅能够调度无生命的机械，牛群也可以像人群一样富于活力，以至于它们运动与相互碰撞的激烈程度更难以预料，这就需要一名“驯兽师”（对于场面调度者的最高礼赞，霍克斯也在此列）极具技巧的引导，在基顿看来，两者并无二致，都只是喜剧的几何形式的一种。 2025.6.20
基顿短片还是比长片好看。电影史上第一个first person shot（来自牛）。
众多而今都不太可笑的点，除了最后一个 @BabylonBerlin
好多牛 好多牛 好多好多好多牛
巴斯特·基顿诞辰130周年 这才是真正的西部牛仔故事，放牛