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.
D / 既封闭又自我的电影，很不喜欢，能把手持特写电影拍的这么无法靠近人物，导演水平也是够差的。
作为新手导演，玛吉的这部电影创作很成熟，主演科尔曼也是选对了人，难以想象换一个女主演会不会把角色演砸。故事虽然以回忆和现实两条线同时展开，但是说真的，并没有拍出作为母亲那一刻真正摧毁她决绝母子情分的焦虑，我想尤其对那些没有做母亲的经历的人来说，更有此感，好电影的共情处在于全人类共情，如果没有拍出来，那说明导演还需要好好打磨剧情。
D / 既封闭又自我的电影，很不喜欢，能把手持特写电影拍的这么无法靠近人物，导演水平也是够差的。
少年吔安啦里，两个有着生活烦恼和解决办法的小镇青年，除了气盛的劲头什么都没有，搭帮来做事，还不自觉地卷入了前后为敌的境地。这种身份的人死了，也就等于古惑仔里在混战中被干掉的阿猫阿狗死了。
扣曼演得实在太好了，浑然天成，毫无表演痕迹。
我看完觉得跟《驾驶我的车》正好对应，一个西方一个东方，一个女性一个男性，一个文学一个戏剧，最后都跟自己和解。话说终于在片里认出了一堆熟人，还有女主的几件浴衣好看的。
学识渊博的情人，硬不起来的丈夫，平庸多余的孩子，低智的意大利黑帮……要素太多，看得出仍有埃莱娜的影子，太过于自恋了。
单说电影，比那不勒斯四部曲少了细腻与惆怅，比正常人少了缠绵与叛道
3.5，科尔曼的表演很迷人，似乎自带一堵墙，但同时吸引人跟着她进入一场迷局。原来不是The Lost Daughter，而是The Lost Mother.
飞机片。理解了Accented Cinema为什么说这部片要在大荧幕上看，Coleman的怼脸拍真是太多啦。以四部曲终篇为出发点，但是对于书的引用却极为含蓄，也算有点意思。
三星半，有意思的故事和人物关系，演的也挺好的，只是拍的很一般，隐秘却深刻的伤口以及暗流涌动的悬疑应该还可以结合的更好，音乐也不搭所以有点适得其反的意思，结尾无疾而终，感觉导演让主角的人生停留在了多年以前回家的时刻，之后便是空白。 lots of things haven’t been thought through【但Ed Harris怎么可以这么帅我的妈耶我好喜欢他
想不到Maggie拍得這麼好，狀態描寫和心理懸疑的處理入木三分，秒殺這幾年國內那些從演員轉型的所謂成功導演吧。
配乐台语歌👍👍 罗大佑和林强那段好劲 谭志刚好帅……… 戏里戏外叹口气
看了超高糊版，有点懵，四星是因为我太爱这部片子的音乐了
3.5星。意识流蒙太奇、不可靠的叙事视角、虚实难辩的惊悚悬疑感，都给这部稀松平常的休闲度假类型片增添了剑走偏峰的意味。借助刻画一位不正常的母亲，重新审视并彻底颠覆了现代女性作为母亲时的刻板印象。科尔曼的演技老练精准，不过年轻版的杰西·巴克利的表现丝毫不逊色。
这个阶段的年轻人最危险，没有经验也不知道天高地厚，往往会惹出大乱子。
我们需要更多“女性凝视”下的真实女性角色，那些困境、那些挣扎，不是同为女人都表达不出来的无奈。
在想有些时候所谓的“少年气”是不是其实也是一种学坏的toxic masculinity…歌很好听
看到七十几分钟放弃了，画质差我还能忍，音质糟实在是受不了。左右声道调整了半天还是有杂音，粤语、台语、国语混在一起响起，好像坏掉的收音机一样。只能寄希望于修复版了。
过于单线条，没有太多隐秘的可深挖的东西，过去的画面多到毫无必要，不如在恰当时机做成闪回。
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