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.
二刷达成~感谢有爱的粉丝和扎导，让我在几年之后看到了完整版的正义联盟，太多让人印象深刻的镜头了，女侠的母亲，海王的父亲，超人的母亲，闪电侠的父亲，钢骨的父母，蝙蝠老爷的父母，还有for autumn和哈利路亚，这是一个父辈视角下的扎导版正义联盟，是献给过世女儿的爱~
ps.达克赛德就要毁灭世界了，丧钟再帅又有谁关心啊😅
这版的神奇女侠太飒了，打斗是真的爽，不说DC的比漫威的爽，但起码扎导拍的动作是真的爽
可能跟我看过之前导演剪辑版的分析有关。让我能振奋一些的剧情也就是闪电侠在最后大战的那一小段。
但问题仍然是施耐德自己以及这电影本身的内容。不是所有素材都能用作电影成片，之所以电影一般只有两个小时，是因为精简，因为感情浓缩，而不是拖沓，不是随意滥用慢镜头，怕浪费素材而随便加货。
我和DC就是八字不合。和院线版相比，也没突然好到天上去，时间成本X2，最终效果+0.5（。无聊的故事还要硬上价值真是何必呢，就做成爆米花电影，节奏紧凑打个痛快还能过下眼瘾呢
1弥久摩登 2每一帧都在复活我体内的中国人基因 3人的史诗 4非常敬佩
老的新剧，新的老剧。现实的虚幻，虚幻的现实。阴间的阳人，阳人的阴间。电影的戏剧，戏剧的电影。片里处处是可以列举出的矛盾性反差。三个小时完全不觉得冗长，只是后半段感觉到时间紧迫下叙事略微的赶。在近几年已经放弃对华语电影的兴趣的时候重燃了我对地方性的希望，被舞台与置景完全戳到。4.5
zack snyder其实挺适合去做游戏的。这电影连最基本的故事结构都没有，大部分对话前后也没什么关联，就只是为了把一段段特效动作镜头串联起来。
在这样的年代仍饱含着对过往两朝历史洪流中人民日常生活细节的追溯，且以极为稀缺独特的艺术工作坊式的方法完成。历史大舞台下的他方唱罢尔登场，民间传说中的阴阳神鬼孟婆，以及随波逐流于期间的三教九流各色人等，堪称精妙的历史群像画卷。而献世诸多霸占着的主旋律票房大户们在如此影像映照之下就更显其小丑之态，当下这样的年代是配不上这样的电影的。
今时今日，拍近代中国时间跨度超过50年的华语片，看到就赚到。
退一步，导剪运动以及与之相关的一切声音举措，意义早已超出影片实际水准。三年波澜终于收尾。一场创作与现实联动的吊诡罗生门。
扎黑：尾灯好冤。 扎粉：扎导牛逼。 路人：太长了！
故事终于完整 希望以后的dc风格也能够统一 闪电侠跑步姿势还是很丑 还以为会有一版跟电视剧版一样
吐槽海王为什么把酒瓶子扔海里，忘了你家被污染了吗？钢骨你为啥不穿衣服（
二刷达成~感谢有爱的粉丝和扎导，让我在几年之后看到了完整版的正义联盟，太多让人印象深刻的镜头了，女侠的母亲，海王的父亲，超人的母亲，闪电侠的父亲，钢骨的父母，蝙蝠老爷的父母，还有for autumn和哈利路亚，这是一个父辈视角下的扎导版正义联盟，是献给过世女儿的爱~
一部聪明沉稳，极具独特艺术风格的个人史诗。
小邱福戏谑似地唱出我们小时候唱的绕口令—“我不吃鹅蛋我不变鹅，鹅鸡鹅鸭鹅脑壳”，内心深深地被感动。如果那只站在轰炸之后废墟中茫然失措的鹅是我们，童谣好似成真，也只有化身成鹅的我们才能又进入那段风云变幻的历史。个人不是历史的人质，画地也可以不为牢，那是筑起防线，坚守底线。掏粪也好，乞讨也罢，任何恶劣的环境下都有选择，只不过看我们会不会选。邱福选了他的道路并走到了底，喝了孟婆汤这一生无惧也无悔。（太阳出来喜洋洋那段也太好听了
但他哪有某些导演剪辑版狂热粉丝黑的那么那么神，能把电影改成面目全非。
***其实是艺术片 不能按照商业片（包含文艺片）的类型来看待
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