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.
你是我唯一冒过的险，唯一的自由。 我的身体是一个欢乐的游乐场，享受愉悦是一件非常美妙的事情，我们每个人都应该拥有。
没想到还能看到艾玛汤普森60岁出演这样的作品，英国老牌演员真是各个不让人失望！
看之前就预感会喜欢，结果发现比之前想的更好。比起“行为”，性更像一种“媒介”或“载体”，基于此有了相互观念的碰撞。冲突点设置得很自然，没有俗套的露水情人动真心，而是女性自我意识的觉醒与性工作者对自己身份的正视。接纳情欲，正视愉悦，拥抱自身年老的躯体，于是最终达成了不由男性给予的真正高潮。最后在镜子前勇敢露出身体的Emma太好了。虽然在咖啡厅向学生坦言在我看来还是用力过猛了些（，但简中何时才能拍这种电影啊。
四星半。片子会带给不同人不同的解读，可以有反对对性工作者遭遇的美化，可以有反对支持性服务合法化的观点，也可以看到，正是基于片中女主自我探索的过程，才无法让角色性别互换，恰恰是因为这种性别安排，更巧妙的展现了女性的困境，性只是表象，枷锁的束缚与解除才是内核。艾玛汤普森演技太棒了。
因为疫情无法成行的本该2020四月计划去北京现场的音乐剧，官摄大法好，弥补了2020的遗憾。比起最初不小心邂逅的原声带要更好听，舞台灯光尤其是摄影色彩风格正是我所偏爱并在使用的。 911二十周年与疫情解封后的百老汇，用轻松的语言讲述沉重的事情——新鲜出炉的2021版Come From Away。 希望后疫情时期，可以有更多的剧场经典作品，以官摄并转为影片的方式，呈现给更多的人。 还是希望再补一次原班人马的现场啊
题材和表演都很强。以为只是打擦边球。没想到亮点在最后。
好有魅力的鸭鸭
Jenn Coletta真的太绝了呜呜呜。
"Twenty years after 9/11. Fourteen months into the shutdown." 我就这么说了，看十篇911纪念专题报道不如看一遍CFA。片尾那首跟OBC专辑里很不一样的Welcome to the Rock也很好听
值得反复观看。爱自己，接受自己原本的样子。
或许他们更多的是心灵交流 肉体只是欲望的驱使吧
4k官摄很舒适，第一时间看了，来补标。之前这部戏唯一躺在歌单里的单曲，me and the sky，女机长太酷了！女孩子可以做她想做的任何事情！
剧情很有耐心很不错，尤其是最后立意放在彼此疗愈上。不过性工作者的合法性还是不能因为本片而被推举上舞台。还是只能处于灰色地带。
第3238-简单的小故事，因为真实改编而加倍温馨，赢在演员的表演和舞台的编排调度，衔接紧密可以表现能力，但也因为持续输出没有喘息，观看中间有点疲惫，看完一半后放了好几天又捡起来看的。
"A powerful celebration of humanity."
人类一败涂地，但依旧有闪光。
疫情前买的最后一部音乐剧门票，结果被取消了，这样一想好像快两年没看过现场音乐剧了。女机长的几首歌都好好听，一人分饰多角也很厉害，舞台虽小但利用充分，虽然还是感觉太普通了。
过年的时候在家看了两遍后，开学都还在循环机长之歌
find you pleasure and enjoy it❤️
虽然有点太完美以至于不真实，但足以激起无数人的憧憬，大千世界男男女女。
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