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.
拍法老派，但并不只是预想中的亲情励志，残奥金牌很快就拿到了，重点是之后怎么办，残障运动员即便再努力，也还是会被大众忽视受到不公平对待甚至生存窘迫，我也只能惭愧表示看了电影才知道苏桦伟是谁。普通运动员拼命是为了梦想和名利，残障运动员为的可能只是让自己不再被瞧不起，而这努力最终也还是会落空，想想还真是心酸。这部电影的遇冷，也是这一问题的表现。
生命不息 探索不止！ 不只局限于人类与大自然、主创团队对自然光影与声音的捕捉和运用 也同样在探索着电影无限可能性。感动！
吴君如太牛了，最佩服这种喜剧演员，演起正剧也毫不含糊，岁月神偷和这部，都好棒。
不需要会任何语言就看得懂的电影，因为语言没有叙事作用，完全靠画面推动情节，并且节奏还波澜起伏。好看，声音真的很有层次感
@11'BJIFF 三里屯美嘉 北影节最后一场。一张张拼接的图纸很美，钢笔蘸着墨水一笔笔勾勒出岩壁，想起Almasy手绘的沙漠地图，曾经地理学家们在纸上一丝不苟地描绘地球的纹理。 意大利乡村的旷野和山丘，与老人的吆喝一起在雾里渐隐去。
简单又丰富。洞的很多隐喻。医生用手电给垂死的老人检查眼睛，一束光照进洞里，像是电影的魔术。开头的电梯上升，和后来的梯子下降，耶稣受难的雕像跟村民一起躺在地上。想到蔡国强的天梯。
电影节奏把握得很好，没有拖沓的感觉，几个妈妈和儿子的对手戏很赚眼泪。尤其那句“你是先天残疾，人们不会怪你，人们怪的是我。”唉……当妈的也有很多心酸
演员选的可以，真人真事也很行，就感觉平的还不如看新闻。
6.0 后半段节奏问题，体育类都有这类张力
阅，一共50句“台词”，SO EASY，呵呵
28'用力哭不如用力跑🇨🇴
時代與生命的交配，向上和向下，相斥與鑲嵌。
伟啊，妈妈已经救了你上辈子了，未来的下半辈子要靠你来救妈妈了。
残奥冠军苏桦伟传记🇬🇪
3，我永远都喜欢运动片，不管有多少套路，我都可以从中看到力量。
片名就将重点放在了母子关系 父亲和弟弟几乎完全隐形//煽情其实还是有打动人的部分 大概是亲子关系至少容易让人动容 而将关注点放在这里也能够让本身对残障运动员的关注再多添一层温柔的暖意//第一次跑得比火车快那段好好看 是把视听剪辑什么都用上了//想起说香港精神是小市民精神 不拼就没饭吃所以爱拼才会赢//这很冲奥
#2021北影节#虽然专门设置只在杜比声影厅放映，可终究敌不过各路观众发出的各种嘈杂之声。加上太多没有重点的大全景，和相对略显快速的剪辑和明暗场景切换（总是还没能沉浸于这个镜头就切到了下一个），无可奈何的走神了，到最后也没能再看进去。 却在某一天突然明白了洞与老人的联系，或许洞就意味着人的一生，或是任何未被人所全知的事物？当对它的探索愈发深入，对它的了解愈加明晰，它的生命也即面临终点。
创造了探索洞的现实，以及梦幻般的场景设置！
【2021BJIFF】第六部，全程没有台词，洞外的场景开阔明亮，洞里一直阴暗逼仄，只有头灯打出的一点光亮，当终于探到洞底的时候，老人也去世了，绘图师的图纸画上最后的结尾，画面很美，声音很舒缓，配上深影优秀的影音效果，令人感动，而且我竟然没有睡过去…（有两点让我跑神了：探洞打头阵的小哥好帅/洞里的场景摄影机怎么放置的）
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