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.
我承认场景拍的很美，打斗的特效也够精致，我还有点喜欢Sprite这个角色。可惜，政治会让人昏头的。
一如既往Cast豪华的像贺岁片一样，当然剧情也像。
拓：一直跳舞 从清晨到日暮
亞洲最帥藝人非木村莫屬，最缺乏表演藝術范式的，還是木村。誰又叫他是木村，我喜歡。
又是这么强大的阵容，合格的刑警与合格的侍者，走慢的表，被强暴的妹妹，出轨的丈夫，偷窥的小朋友，变装洛丽塔，原本就带着假面工作的人们又聚在一起参加了变装假面舞会，双重的假面，可做出来的事情确实真的万箭穿心的真实，恨在骨子里，拐个弯的杀
比前作好看！庞杂又看似多余的无用线索层层堆积起来才好玩嘛～真凶若隐若现咱就是认认真真跟着警察一头雾水抓耳挠腮，到最后反而不在意究竟是谁了。。。木村真的很帅，跟麻酱说有也有大部分时间没有的cp感真的让人酸爽，就是说抓住最后几分钟讲纯爱真的大可不必！！！麻酱我求求了，下部剧换个发型吧
其实还行没那么差，前面群像戏拍得很好，我的吗，卡司也太牛啤了，佳乃姐怎么又演了个老公出轨的复仇女呢（哭）。片尾的油画不要错过～
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酒店戏的好处就是人物众多，线索丰富饱满，不会冷场。 不过开头和结尾的那两场探戈真是莫名其妙，时间那么紧的情况下，认定凶手的话还有空跳舞。。。不知道编剧怎么想的，就那么喜欢木村的舞姿么？作案动机其实也是有点莫名 | 根据东野圭吾同名小说改编
感觉比前作好点但也没好很多，可能观影的主要目的就是木村拓哉和长泽雅美吧。
剧情布局还是蛮有趣的。为了坚持酒店员工的宗旨而跟警察对着干有点匪夷所思。毕竟只是提供娱乐性的电影。
【YVR-5th】角色设置的确多样化，是好是坏先放在一边，主要问题出在成品和对漫威预期不搭。应该和dc合作的，可能这样双方都更游刃有余，现在一部妥协的作品必然娱乐艺术都不吃香。
木村大神怎么更帅了最后那一慕简直颜狗福音 和麻酱老婆的cp感也越来越强 推理故事一般般吧感觉人物太多犯罪主角的动机和心理描写都被弱化了
在拍原子弹之前，有几个大屠杀的镜头过渡一下，可能会调节一下观感，至少不让人反感。
比上一部在电影里面穿插肥皂短剧好一点，至少有整体性了，节奏和结构也舒服一点，但是整体上依然是挺没劲的，不论是警察的执意调查还是酒店的坚持都属于没话找话，推理部分依然是东野圭吾特有的蛋疼，只能说导演和演员救了很多。
拓：一直跳舞 从清晨到日暮
2022.6.3@百度网盘 就是看看热闹，破案和犯案一样离奇
后面打算二刷一下，确定一些细节，目前感觉推理上有好几个点存在大bug，希望二刷之后能提高星数，个人心里还是很喜欢这样的片子的。
其实东野圭吾的假面系列本身就是偏娱乐的，不管是推理过程还是立意都没法撑起这个时长，加上对于酒店的设点有点固执，本末倒置，也就是明星众多，可以撑撑场面，看似华丽，就当偶像剧了
這部被裁剪得如舞會禮服般華麗，比上一部精彩一些，但這個信息量拍成劇更合適吧。。。結尾竟然呼應前作，這次我看出拓麻的CP感了。戴著面具推開旋轉門的木村拓哉帥死我了，上一部這一Part的紅裙麻醬也絕美。PS：本科不愉快上課回憶依舊Flashback。
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