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.
看出品方有凯叔，还挺激动的。这是凯叔献给孩子们的灵魂交响曲呀！我家孩子可以说是从小听着凯叔的故事长大的，里面很多故事在我这样一个中年人看来都颇多感慨，不知道他小小的脑子里是怎么理解的。让人意外的是，整个观影过程中他十分认真，不吵不闹，安安静静看完了整部电影，老父亲很是欣慰啊！
好慢长又普通的电影 再次确认坂口只能做平面模特 演得有够差劲的 小松演技绝佳 对比过于惨烈 最后那是什么 大风吹起的樱花它攻击我？ 不过景致摄影色调音乐都挺好的
小松和坂口真的太配了 什么都不做光是同框画面就很赏心悦目 坂口感觉还是老样子 小松演技倒是进步不少 片子虽然是意料之中的老套剧情但是小松一哭我也会想哭555
中规中矩，就是你看到题材都可以从头猜到结局的电影，也算是给困顿的每一天注入一剂鸡血吧。洋子的歌还是那么好听嘿嘿🙊
看看人菜瘾大191这次表现怎么样哈哈哈（看完了，人菜瘾大191这次居然没想象中那么尬，可能是那两场戏都比较那什么…前面某句短评笑得我…以及，坂口怎么接不住小松的戏emm…pps连着看两部强行煽情让你哭的片有点受不了，明天看点别的）
2022.3.16池袋grand cinema
盼望了七年的奥运强弩之末途遭祸不单行；缓期十年的死刑伴随着岁月消磨日益临近。赛末点的遗憾和无绝期的死灰，哪种更煎熬？
《萤火虫女孩》被改编得面目全非。至少有两个故事是成人的怀旧视角。相对来说，比较喜欢《哼将军和哈将军》
有幸在艺联冬暖深圳影展上看到了这一部《向着明亮那方》，七个温暖治愈的小故事，在冬天看真的是非常合适了，温暖，甜美，治愈。
节奏有很大问题，推进的太硬，拍的也不抓人，没能很好的调动起情绪，以至于就剩下了演员用力的表演.
就像我们的生命中出现的记忆，最后终究烟消云散
很无聊的电影，一切都如此老套。屏幕那边似乎时时在催“你哭，你快哭，你必哭”，下头。有些人只有从「绝症」才能体会非日常，我从来不理解这种奇怪的G点。
被坂口健太郎衬托的小松菜奈的演技都好了
喜欢水墨小兔，喜欢水彩小饭馆，喜欢毛毛导演外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅里唯一一句“别哭别哭”的对白；
Nana怎么看怎么好看。剧情倒是普普通通，但她真的进步太多。7/10
每年看流水情侣在荧幕前上演大同小异的生离死别，内心毫无波澜。景物摄影和人脸特写还挺唯美，氛围感清新淡雅，没太刻意强煽任情绪自然流淌。结尾的那段平行蒙太奇还是有点触动，平添几分对世事的感怀与命运无常的哀叹，那些未了的心愿、未宣出口的爱意、苦涩抑郁的心情皆透过文字的力量永存于世。小松的哭戏进步不少，整体表演撑得起场，奈绪跟华妹也很亮眼。
日式纯爱版肿瘤君，夜樱、黄叶、花火、积雪，都是容易消逝的事物。小松菜奈剪了短发超像Lisa.
节奏有很大问题，推进的太硬，拍的也不抓人，没能很好的调动起情绪，以至于就剩下了演员用力的表演.
对于得知自己余命10年的女主而言，其实几番四季轮回其中令人难忘且快乐美好的回忆也就只是被DV记录下的短短几段，数量上寥寥无几，其余的大部分时间都不得不被她用在与病魔以及对死亡的恐惧作漫长的斗争上面。来到生死线的边缘，女主走马灯式地脑补了她与男主虚构中的未来，结婚、生子，诸如此类的所有平凡的幸福仅仅能一瞬照亮她的想象。男主最后眼前也出现幻视，女主明明已离去他却看到他和她牵手走过盛开的樱花树下。明知是绝症题材的套路却没办法不悲伤不流泪。赞女主演的（还是一如既往的）好。
8.5分，细节做足了，很唯美了也是。个人觉得情感上比去年的花束版的恋爱更打动我，小松菜奈让我流下了老直男的眼泪可还行。。
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