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.
某老六只会“嘁！”“嚇！”，拉低全片表演水平，像在看0几年的《周末大放送》，怎么都带不动。
一场是摩天轮的戏，我们可以一起养羽星，这算表白吗，我马上就要被抓了，看着你我可以谅解了抛下我的母亲，非常出彩的一对人物，被救赎到好像可以平静地迎来自己的结局。另一场很小，裴斗娜把手机探出车窗，记得我们一起看的那部电影里的这首歌吗，一瞬间的脆弱情绪让我想落泪。
心太软家族全员自投罗网，羽星长大写作文是不愁素材了，为没说出“孩子是你在这个世界上唯一的亲人了，你可要振作起来”加一星
前有小偷一家人，后有人贩子一家人。就没有是枝裕和掰不直的。
欠了债但还有道德感的掮客，不想打胎但又不想要小孩的妓女，想抓人但又同情心过剩的女警察.. 好像主题拍着拍着就歪了，iu和姜栋元空洞的演技更是让主线不知道跑去哪里了。无血缘的家族应该不会再有第三部了吧😮💨
感受到了导演对老姜的爱。
在去交易的旅途中，有小孩的天真顽皮，青年人对爱的呼唤，中年人对亲情的守护，母亲的懊悔，女警们感受的一切，已都是是枝裕和的拿手戏
然后又轻描淡写地把一切残酷都粉饰得美好
水准还是一流。喜欢买者用母乳喂奶那场戏，很刺痛生母；裴斗娜感慨自己才是“掮客”，也很有趣。但是饼叔能拿影帝是他几十年演员生涯的肯定，单凭这部戏实在是难有说服力。另外故事的话，也其实有点差强人意。
喜欢不起来，角色和角色之间都没啥火花，有看到说IU被台词膈应到而去找导演讨论的新闻，我想大概就是和裴斗娜争辩那场，说实在的那个台词也有膈应到我，还有最后酒店关灯那场戏是要干嘛……饼叔绝对值得拿戛纳影帝，但绝对不是凭这个片拿。
平庸。表演魅力没get到，人物行为动机和感情牵绊联系没get到，和以前的作品没得比。
还算是中规中矩的是枝裕和，几对亲子关系写的很标准，结尾但是拍得很好，留下了足够的悬念，反而很喜欢裴斗娜的表演，自然克制
韩版《小偷家族》，更像公路片，这里也有没有血缘的人们临时组成的家庭。
是枝裕和朝鲜半岛资方胁迫下糊弄作业不及格❌宋康昊劳苦功高的戛纳水叶子，，午夜梦回时不会长腿儿自己跑回法兰西嘛🚬唯一亮点居然是两位资源咖倾情奉献的摩天轮桥段(当然也可能是因为我自己很喜欢摩天轮所以有滤镜
有《空气人偶》参演的《小偷家族》版《无人知晓》，是老是枝裕和了～
充满人文关怀的作品。一辆人贩子面包车成了这人世间的温柔乡，真希望五人组就这么走下去把孩子养大啊。结尾处理得也非常温柔，平心静气地在关照生而为人的哲学话题。是枝裕和温柔的笔法，配上宋康昊全程奶妈式表演，4星
2.“一家人”与“买家”接头，通过相关专业知识分辨出“买家”并不诚实和“一家人”洗车的场景，给平淡的故事增加了一丝温馨和幽默的气息，有些动人
越往后越奇怪的故事走向，别的部分水准还是在线的。其实开头二十分钟都很不错，就是后面拉胯。
温吞，非常的温吞，很可能是最差的一部是枝裕和作品。这就是典型的水土不服，能明显感觉到导演的束手束脚和迁就。这剧本本就一般，如果是知名韩国本土导演拍，虽然肯定会更加狗血一些，但情感释放上必然会更强烈、更容易令观者动容；另一层，如果是枝裕和把这个剧本带到日本的生活环境中，用熟悉的日本演员，还按照他过往的舒缓素淡的方式拍，成片效果也会比现在好得多。
63/100。是枝裕和招牌的旅游风景宣传片+温情家庭童话，金棕榈基本上扼杀了他的可能性，只会用不同的语言讲述同样的故事。卖淫、杀人、弃婴、贩卖人口，这样的故事让金基德拍才对。论美景，韩国电影最美的镜头全在金基德的电影里。
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