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.
4/10。原著漫画好像是我学生时代最爱的耽美漫？电影是把所有的男男戏都删了吗，而且主角们都毫无魅力。电影质量甚至不如网大。
导演的镜头没有效率和信息，靠舞台剧般的自言自语，拍出来就很扯淡。
故事好对我胃口，拍的也挺美。但可能还是有点太想讲清楚了，展现了太多逻辑性的线索和细节，就少了很多情感上说不清道不明的感觉。好可惜啊，那种抓不住的只能凭感觉的暧昧情愫才应该是影视化的魅力所在。（没想到会看到优子，有点感动+惊喜。真好啊，演技进步了好多，已经是立派的演员了啊）
#HKAFF
当她在婚礼上望向儿子儿媳的时候，谁能保证他们将来不会变得和她自己的婚姻一样呢。
值得一个三星的最重要一点是因为，剧情完整度很高，虽然用了很多烂梗但是对标一部轻松诙谐的喜剧片无可厚非。主角的演技基本在线、情绪到位，一些大咖拿来做个彩蛋点缀也算处理得当。不过个人认为一个很关键的弱点是让男主的转变过于生硬了，既没有明显铺垫男主从小被污名为偷后发展成惯偷的前因，也没有一个明显的行为明确给到观众男主洗心革面的节点，对于一部轻喜剧来说算个硬伤。
还挺好看，表现得很有趣，这方面可以展现更多。剧情单薄，人物感情塑造也是。还行吧。
近2小时时长描写了中年夫妻那种凑合过日子的负面状态，
此外还有大量不需要的擦边球笑料，劝加入这些想法的人从现在开始学韩语，换个地方去拍真正的性喜剧吧。
到最后只有男主成长了，女主一点变化都没看到，所以我不把它当爱情片。
就吃饭看看还行 撑不起这么漫长的时间 剧情还是太单薄了
感觉比《日不落酒店》还差。看不懂电影的主题是什么。阿震和草莓的恋爱故事？小偷改邪归正的故事？教训人生的平台多重要？
反正也不是想杀人只是想被杀而已随便你吧。。。(？
修行，在一切时，在一切处，在一切人，在一切事。
比较没有代入感的中年家庭片，所以整篇看下来比较沉闷。
直到三分一的时候才有对白，厉害了。前面看着像纪录片。
太空洞了，幸好去年金馬衝堂最後選擇去看《美國女孩》，陳以文、丁寧真的看得好膩。
多重人格成了双层防护甲，按理应该开发一个比凯瑟琳更强的人格，这样受虐快感max
频繁的黄段子让我不适，弱智的精神科医生更是令人无语。
内容密度充其量是个短片。神神叨叨，不知所谓。
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