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.
等了好久的电影，呈现方式很美好，或者说很凄美。总而言之，感觉还是要活下去呀，愿所有人都能战胜疾病。
6.5分。让人印象深刻的类型反转，当你以为它是“闪灵”的时候，它说：不，我是“寄生兽”。
这倒计时开始的人生啊，因为爱的美好却易逝，不愿触碰，却又努力抓紧有关爱的一切。一段段美好时光删去，独留初见时的画面。因为你，我要努力活下去到最后一刻。
看完观后感：两个自私鬼自我感动的爱恨情仇……
太好哭了趴，虽然很老套但两个人的演技都很好
na你的演技真的进步了，但答应我下次不要再演mv电影了好嘛
还可以呀，温式吓人还是很强的，各种奇特镜头来一遍，前半段吓得我一愣一愣，后半段爽的一阵一阵。随着悬念的铺垫，中段大概已经猜到了谜底，但揭晓那刻依然挺过瘾。不过影片依然有着一些逻辑硬伤，其实可以把这个变态故事玩得更好。
影片拍得很平淡，没有什么高潮没什么冲突没什么转折。一个不治之症的女孩的余生十年的时光，有了工作有了恋人。生命是值得珍惜的，珍惜瞬间的美好事物。
导演拍的很美，滤镜很温暖。
总体来说一般 但合格了
对深爱的人，体面告别永远是我无法克服的人生课题。RADWIMPS歌声在片尾出现是个意外
但是其他角色演技依旧吊打两位主角
是夏日海边的浪花
剧本一般，框架命题里中规中矩的表达，但导演和演员真的一骑绝尘，不靠戏剧技巧完全是情感和氛围打动人。 未实现的梦，对生的渴望，对死的无力。 其实是一个非常有性格的女主，只是现在非常白描的拍法没有呈现太多。
我他妈真的服了温子仁了，一个没有鬼的电影死的人比前几部鬼片加起来死得都多！在几乎所有好莱坞导演都在探索新技术的时候，温导大踏步的后退，愣是从被人嘲笑多少年的铅黄电影当中挖掘出新的宝藏。他完美袭承了约翰·卡朋特，山姆·雷米，托比·霍珀等人的恐怖元素，成功塑造出手持利刃，身穿黑衣，行走如风，杀人如麻的全新怪物形象，并且让心电感应一词真正具现化，真的是应了国家电网那句话：您用电，我用心！忽明忽暗吓死您！我已经有很多年没有见过集变态、丑陋、诡异、恶趣味于一身的怪物了！前半段我还在纳闷，为什么温子仁这次没有那么吓人了，后来才发现自己太天真了，温导已经从“我要用你看不见的东西吓死你”进化为“我要用你看得见的东西吓死你”，我现在心里面就一件事，烧香拜佛求菩萨求上帝都行，二十一世纪恐怖大师：温子仁，长命百岁
没有想象中那么好哭，小松菜奈颜值飘忽不定。总体来说不如白百何的肿瘤君。电影片尾曲不错
黑木华演技加起来等于男女主，整个大型ppt写真集mv播放实录。为写小说的原作加一颗星。导演和编剧在干什么,再老套的故事，原本是真诚的就足够打动人才对。难看。
剧情老套但催泪 为なな的演技 坂口的帅气 RADWIMPS的配乐多打一星
有点单薄，但也贡献了比较精彩的氛围和反转、炫酷的反身打戏和血浆场面。配乐爱了！结尾比较无力，正义战胜邪恶的轻易程度堪比海王拿起三叉戟🔱目前7.0这个分数包含了观众对老温的严格要求，毕竟起点太高。如果类似设定的国产片《双生》能拍成这个水平，被捧到8也说不好（囧）
影调很好，宣传的那些胶片照片太好看了。小松菜奈和坂口真的视觉上很好看。希望甜甜的剧情不仅仅是montage段落。风吹樱花那一刻真的太美了，不论余命多少年，都应该把每一天当作最后一天来活。
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