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.
调查官有一句话说得特别好：“我不知道会有什么判决，但是我完全满意的是，我是按照法律和良心行事的。”
你为什么要跑马拉松啊？
无意义的事才最有意义呀～
什么是青春，这部给出了最好的答案。小彻只是想和幼儿园的好友一起长大，这个朴素的愿望听着如此心酸，有多少人，都是越大越孤单了（包括我自己），从前儿时的好友走散了。集推理、悬疑和热血于一体的小新剧场版❤️
当然，即便对本影片奉上再多的赞美之词，在如此真实、震撼、悲哀、血淋淋的历史面前都显得无力……
春日部防卫队fire！！千潮跑步时真的好颜艺哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，但做自己的她太帅了！！没必要活在别人眼色里。番长面具下的脸好清秀xs
印度电影打动我的总是题材，而非美学风格。看完本片心里很难过。印度固然有极其愚昧野蛮的一面，但起码其精英阶层是愿意认同并且努力拥抱支撑起现代文明社会的柱石的，所以这个国家是充满活力且大有希望的。
这几年之中相当不错的蜡笔小新剧场版！而且是原创的
#2022.12#虽然依旧忍受不了印度电影的歌舞，不过好在这次没有舞了…选材完胜，这才是电影该有的样子，不知道在生活的土壤是否还能看到，还是越来越红呢？影片还是有一些反转，看的直呼过瘾，为最低下的人民感到悲哀同时又为他们在影片中的所作所为，不被黑恶侵蚀而骄傲
低种族出身，就像剔骨难消的出厂设置，在印度成为低劣人种、品行败坏的刻板标签。此种语境下，遭受黑警惨绝人寰的暴行依然坚守自己清白的丈夫，成为穷途末路上捍卫自身正义的献祭者。始终拒绝和谈、不向当权者低头的妻子，仿若莅入人间炼狱、争取平权社会的湿婆真身。而以良知和专业毅然对抗国家机器的律师，外加不愿同流合污的督察组成的双雄搭档，最终成为印度腐朽司法体制的破局者，奉献了这场属于“贱民阶级”的公正胜利。文本依然很印度，法庭抗辩和调查取证过程紧凑而跌宕。就是前情铺垫和歌舞混剪显得拖沓冗余，如果去掉奇观化、风情化表达，剪到120分钟会更好看。
过誉之作，题材好、底层故事好，跟电影好完全是两码事。用这种浮夸bgm+略带中二的方式呈现这么沉重的题材，个人接受无能。电影表达也板正平庸，没什么可说的，白白浪费一个好题材，甚至可以说是拍得相当肤浅，流于表面。
用影视渲染的方式极其快速地将观众代入了印度底层社会的惨状。印度的电影有着阿三的奇妙中二氛围。至于看了外国的电影，就开始无理由抨击、唾骂我guo司法的网友，我也不知道说什么好
21-300. 1）打人場景太真實了，看得萬分心痛。因為他們貧窮，沒有文化，低種姓，就活該被如此惡劣的對待嗎？窮人難道沒有尊嚴嗎？最後真的好希望奇跡發生，男主可以挺過去，可惜來不及了。警察如此暴力執法，實在看得太生氣了。但是再往下想想，警察為什麼敢如此暴力執法？更深層的原因是有上級在撐腰啊，所以案子阻力重重。但是真的好感動律師的付出，“我是個律師，但我首先是個人。” 2）缺點還是歌舞部分真的太多了，減掉點會避免不少沒必要的鏡頭。不過這是印度片特色，也可以理解。總體而言是最近看的高質量好片。
致敬每一位为底层人民奋斗的英雄，致敬每一个推广赞美这种行为的艺术家
到现在张口就来的种姓制，步入社会几年才算明白，在一些民智未开的地方只不过换了个看起来更高端的样子存在：士、X、工、农、X
完全听不懂。。。
看的时候总觉得人物的声音是浮在人物上面的，总的来说，就是音画好像不够同步，也可能是自己太久没看，印度电影，所出现的不适应感吧
要素过多的本格推理，最后关于青春那段排比句还挺感动的
这世界本就是弱肉强食，但是也不能为此就放弃朋友啊。
黑警虽然可恨，种姓制度虽然让人愤怒，但起码律师上街不会被寻衅滋事，农妇维权不会被恶意上访，高等法院判案不需要看谁脸色。
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