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.
名著改编保障了剧情。在这种时候看到这样的电影，不得不感慨前人的敏锐与深刻。放下幻想，认真生活。找到自己内在力量。
没读过原著，但电影还算吸引人，很多旁白，感觉在让观众贴近原著，古典的配乐也不错，有一首很熟的曲子我却说不出曲名。故事描写的主人公的经历和那个时代的报社，职场，剧场和我们现在的社会差不多，或者说现在的世道和那个时代差不多，花钱买流量，花钱捧一个人或者贬一个人，铺天盖地难分真假的各种新闻，现在谁都可以写文章发视频，搞得我妈都不知该吃啥该干啥了。主人公经历了花花世界的起起落落终于又回到最初的起点，一个外面的世界很精彩外面的世界很无奈的故事。
我能看懂这个故事
一部古典而强有力的影视作品，它在保证了影视化改编的观赏性的同时也没有完全失去作为一部文学巨著的顽强的生命力，很有欧洲古典主义的气质
Coralie一开口就是个2022年的高中生
Remember where do you come from
這拍得也太依賴畫外音了。男主演老是歪著嘴笑看著不太聰明。
中规中矩吧，小说原著里那些枝节但很重要的剧情与人物都砍掉了，故事变得紧凑，但这样一个巴黎梦碎的故事也挺普通的。
首鼠两端的人终究不得好死———只是可怜了男主的第二个女友，算是故事里唯一一个好人
巴尔扎克的小说，的确厚重。在当下看这部片子，沉重又加了一份。小人物在大洪流中，永远微不足道。
m2259：他成为了别人的小说。卡洛琳是个好女人。
虽然很华丽，但拍得毫无新意，一部小说改编的电影还是需要旁白和对白推进故事的话，那我为什么不去看原作呢？
开头乡间部分诗意盎然，中间部分平白。
大学时看过巴尔扎克小说,首次看改编的电影,整体中规中矩,忠实于原著,制作精良,摄影场景服装美术都很到位,男主选的不错,两位侯爵夫人太丑。本片和红与黑异曲同工,讲的是宿命,富贵荣华,功名利禄都是浮华,一切都是过眼烟云,只有文学和艺术永存。对19世纪报纸杂志运行内幕揭示令人大开眼界。最糟糕的是从头到尾喋喋不休的旁白,导演,电影是用影像说话,怎么搞成播放电子书了!7.6
用传统和渐入来打造“幻”，以制造“灭”的可怕和猛烈
「别人的痛苦才是艺术的源泉，而你去受苦，只会成为别人的艺术源泉」
这样说有些无脑：但Tim Blake Nelson的名字出现，就知道不会有什么大问题；当作是演技个人秀看也不会感到吃亏。故事上的“土、村、直”可能拾起了那种西部片总是充满着意味、又强调着家庭精神的核心气息；几次追缉，也有滋味。尽管距离《赴汤蹈火》或者Taylor Sheridan在做的东西，尚有段可观的距离；但依然借由Tim，带出了属于自己的特质。
感想是，不要和依然秉持当年的三观的人们混在一起...
第一次看觉得很嘲讽，后来回味：为什么世界就不能是一个懵懂热情的乡下少年所想象的那样直接而美好呢？
影片改编自巴尔扎克撰写的同名小说，讲述梦想成为作家的年轻诗人吕邦普雷(沃辛饰)离开昂古莱姆，只为巴黎的灯光。这部背景设置在19世纪的影片投资超1870万欧元，已于今夏法国开机，并将持续拍摄到10月底。
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