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.
作为游戏系列的前传，杰洛特有出场，可以猜猜看动画里谁是白狼w
游戏者应该比较比较有感觉，故事完整，不藏不躲，三星可看。
不搞拉踩，但真的是比瀑布好看啊。方郁婷又是一枚潜力新星…
维瑟米尔战斗力还真是强，不愧是杰洛特的师傅。我觉得如果把两位夫人的属性换一下，泰特拉表面上痛恨猎魔人实则却在暗中保护，而泽布斯特夫人虽然表面上处处护着维瑟米尔，实则背地里的一切都是她在主使，这样电影肯定会在加上一颗星。另外，杰洛特小时候是个光头！我……
开头的战斗一气呵成、酣畅淋漓，所有的打斗场面比剧版好上太多了🙃第二季好好学学行不行？
很诧异拍出那么好的短片的导演，长片里体现的很多创作观念都与之前相悖，各种应该展开的都流于表面，细节、情绪都缺很准确的点，远不及期待。@2022-03-08
好像每个人在各演各的，如果单独拎出来算不错，组合在一起完全无法让人相信这是一家人。但如果导演确有用角色指代不同立场的意思，那……也算成功吧。母女关系处理几乎是《瀑布》的反面，没有爱也没有恨，就像两个雌竞的女性，让人很不舒服。
有女导演对于情绪刻画的细腻，但是整个过程一直在周而往复，人物在其间没有什么大的成长，对于很多的描绘随着进度条流逝，也只停在了那里。林嘉欣是个好演员，也是作为三十岁的成人观众的我最心疼的一个角色，希望本片原型的母亲还好好活着而且和女儿们和解了。
18/11/2021 @ K11 Art House。典型華人家庭”大家迫死大家但心裡其實很愛你”的故事 // 方郁婷表現非常不錯 // 難怪JVR會投資啊原來用了3首周杰倫的歌
补充背景剧情用！还以为维瑟米尔跟女巫之间会有点啥，有点无头无尾的感觉！
林嘉欣瘦了好多，真的是女神啊，不过其实她什么样都女神。片子本身乏善可陈，虽然演员都很努力，但这就是很一般的片子。对非典在戏剧中的运用也没有用好，只是个噱头和壳子，其实跟故事关系不大。看完不懂为啥金马拿了这么多奖，是真的没好片了？不过林嘉欣还是值得，电话响起、冲过去、停顿了一秒才战战兢兢拿起来，生怕电话那头是妹妹的坏消息，影后真不是盖的。
大概華人看了都會有點頭和感同身受的時刻吧，不管是在校園還是家庭，甚至是千禧年周杰倫金曲，以及與華人甚至亞洲環境始終無法斬斷的連結。在Covid19下看SARS背景有些奇異的重合感。
在虚置的疫情背景下，透过一个家庭裹挟出接二连三关乎成长、生活、地域、教育、死亡等诸多问题，到头来发现所有答案都是无解的，只好在逐步解题的过程中品尝痛苦生活中爱的个中滋味。剧作蛮“老套”，许多桥段功能性极强，还好对生活细节的细腻还原以及林嘉欣和方郁婷的精彩表演给影片注入许多温情。
真喜欢啊，不断地摩擦碰撞，但是又十分温软动人，从身份错位上看是准确的，从家庭认知上看是清醒的，从对小朋友的塑造上看又不乏天真。反而是演讲稿上让我不太能理解，尤其是老师的鼓励看起来相当冒险（或许只是为了有一个好老师形象）。结尾收得太棒了，瞬间想起了「小偷家族」。
壓抑程度比「瀑布」要再高出很多，一直在描寫家庭吵架，場景又刻意調得很昏暗，很真實、但直到最後都沒有破解，女孩到底要不要回美國？如何解決自己的內心矛盾？本作最多只是揭露了一些實現American Dream的華人現象而已。
吵架吵的很真实，每位角色的困境也很真实。但从头吵到尾，剧情白开水，全靠演员的演技把观众情绪调动起来的。林嘉欣演出了妈妈的脆弱，方郁婷演出了“美国女孩”的“不同”。另外，周杰伦的歌放在网吧当BGM太合适了。
整体很赞，主角和青梅竹马跨越时间的洪流依然保留着彼此的爱，结尾狠赚了一把我的眼泪，也算是个尚且美好的收场。
在此之前我都快把猎魔人大屠杀忘了🚬说实话，很给劲，血腥场面还给就给毫不遮掩，剧情飞起刀来也一点不手软
林嘉欣，很漂亮
为网飞猎魔人宇宙打基础 没想到小时候的杰洛特真让人头秃 太大胆了…
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