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.
又无聊又长，坐不住了我去隔壁传场看了一半。不要浪费您的两小时生命，除非你是哪种以为看个这个你就了解了journalism或者可以有个good laugh的。
影片改编自巴尔扎克同名小说。原著小说问世于19世纪40年代。但竟然发现哪怕放在现如今，也是一样具有极强烈的现实意义。本片可谓制作精良，人物的容妆服侍、背景的搭建装饰，都非常用心，几个古装年轻帅小伙也都相当养眼。只是虽然精良，但片长可能有点短。大部头的小说改编成电影都会遇到这种难题吧。
太平了，太冗长了，旁白太多了......
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？
是85年盛夏的Benjamin voisin弟弟！弟弟依然貌美！还有我更喜欢的演员/配音兰兰，兰兰真的是好优秀的演员夸夸！没有读过巴尔扎克这本原著，但还是那个年代宏大叙事里的个人沉浮，和一些些当代可以relate的现象。这个年代每个认真拍古典的作品都值得赞美。故事走向就很巴里林登，当然比是不敢比。
3.5. 原著黨全程吐槽。還行，是因為Lucien和幻滅的底子在不可能太不行，但是它改了的設定和為此新增的場次，消除了幻滅裡很多複雜微妙的氣質。Lucien是有過選擇和經歷的，Louis更加是完全不是那樣的。
前几天刚好买了幻灭的原著，看到有电影就想着先看看了解一下故事。 看完之后更想看原著了。经典就是经典，对规则和生活都写得如此透彻。 故事的最后依旧是回到原点。我记得以前看路遥的人生也给我这样的感觉，所有的东西绕了一大圈最终都会原点。 普通人的生活很难逃离最初的起点。 "我不再幻想，开始生活"。是要贴在脑门上时刻说给自己听的。
我觉着吧，这部片子要和《法兰西》一起看 200年前的法国，和现在的法国，同样充满着谎言的媒体，除了钱他们什么都不需要
小民喜好的就是谣言，造谣的媒体自然成为社会焦点。连捧带杀，多家媒体火力并开，谁又会想到这仅仅是为了制造热点，收割韮菜。男主有幸经历这一切，即便幻灭，平生亦足矣。
但看不懂人生
7.5吧，很多情节放在如今也毫不违和，不愧是巴尔扎克。时长原因，虽然有趣但还是看到疲倦。
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？
卡洛琳以爱为吕西安冠名，然鹅被恶意鼓动起来的野心和时代撕开了吕西安在夏东和德·吕邦普雷之间的人格分裂，直到最后，两个身份全部幻灭——我是谁，我从哪里来，要到哪里去。
精致、深刻，巴尔扎克对媒体和人性的洞察与揭示至今仍未过时。
“这个野心勃勃的吕西安是个什么人？一个追逐虚荣的快乐和快乐的穷小子，牺牲一切来换取快乐。就像飞蛾投进了火堆，是环境造就出的奴隶。他的良知等同于一个无情刽子手。”
4.5 声色犬马的巴黎在波谲云诡间无止尽地倾泻她的幻泡，似乎人人都可分得一杯羹。但Lucien在空中坠落时，大概能够回想起来，下雨天在巴黎穿过排水沟也是要花钱的。
可以想象原著的精彩。青年被时代裹挟的故事不要太多。巴黎的浮华世界大概就是他的一场黄粱梦吧。一流的小说并不是最适合改编的，感觉编剧导演有点束手束脚，但是整体还是很有水准：精致的服化道，丰富的配乐，演员的表演。
-如果它很有启发，那就说他哗众取宠好了！
“停止幻想，开始生活。”傲慢的贵族对于渴望拥有贵族身份的人无疑是更加蔑视的。
感想是，不要和依然秉持当年的三观的人们混在一起...
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