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.
只可惜男主还是妈宝了，都没坚持一下下自己，两年的感情随随便便就放弃了。如果他的爱只是因为他妈的摇头就停止，在一起全靠他妈的妥协，现实里遇到这样的男的，还是有多远逃多远吧。
（《真雄起》还没看过，仅通过朋友推荐语、发的图片和片名感觉，男性这单一性别的内容会占主要篇幅，而不是女同、男同、一切性少数者齐努力。以后会补习《真雄起》的。现在发言权还不足。）而这部《永结"同"心》或者叫《祝贺》也比较像沙杜sir这位男同的思想成长史。总的来说，融合了形婚、男同、女同、出柜、🇮🇳🌈游行、同志领养孩子（甚至还调侃了种姓制度）等"梗"，又是生在🇮🇳这个所谓比……后的国家，就算是歌舞部分的时间再拉长些，都值满星了！看到长长的彩虹被撑起在这个国家的大道上时，我真的很激动！！！还有一些老年演员……
最保守地方的习俗和方言，很好的容纳进了非常现实的故事里，不避讳人种肤色肥瘦的切实偏见，结果却居然能有高于现实的浪漫。
对于之前完全不了解潮汕文化的我来说，看到了台湾电影的影子。想来潮汕虽属广东，却与闽南更相像吧。今时今日，潮汕地区宗法制对普通人生活的影响之大，是习惯了亲戚数年不走动，邻居相见不相识的生长于北方偏北城市的我难以想象的，但宗法亲邻，本就与民俗饮食俱荣俱损，两难的事情很难兼美，但不管哪里的妈妈都是最好的妈妈。
日常生活是熟悉而有趣的，故事一般。为啥拍潮汕的电影都是潮阳口音？
这部作品可能更加适合情人节档期，让真的平常的普通人，接接地气，看看成年人是怎么面对处理感情问题和家庭问题。影片也是没有俗套去弄一些狗血的挽留情节，感情至少都是细腻表达到位。我不是潮汕人，不了解潮汕人那些复杂的关系，但不妨碍这是部值得夸的作品。
love is love.
我承认，大多数汕头人都是不爱自己家乡的，不止是不爱，甚至骨子里轻蔑、嘲讽，对它的唯一认同，大概只有吃。但看了导演阿狼这4年的2部方言电影，真的能感受到有一些人是挺热爱家乡的，虽然同样身不在此。不可否认，那些深藏我们心底的“卑劣感”，也都一一呈现在影片中了，这就是我们留给外地人的刻板印象，但这就是事实。最喜欢的一点，导演并没有刻意美化家乡。——2022.4.30看完
把背景换成中国大陆，剧情完全照搬也基本上成立，当然除了游行那段。
中国人口的希望在潮汕，正如世界人口的希望在绿绿
后二十分的时候开始带情绪，如果自己的亲人都觉得这是罪是病是恶的话，那面罩将一直摘不下。
还是没忍住看了，也极力推荐。很期待可以有更多这样的的电影，地方特色、社会议题、家庭温情的结合，有台湾电影的感觉，细腻的情感，浓浓的生活气息，生活的苦乐，家人之间的纠结与和解。结尾的自媒体视角非常赞。
印度拍这个题材还是挺魔幻的。载歌载舞表达欢乐，也有沉重的片刻，但整体来说有点流水账的感觉，故事走向完全猜得出来且过于皆大欢喜了，两个多小时片长可供消遣，但尚不算佳片。
好久没看这类题材，搞笑心酸又无奈，最后的游行真的泪目了，T^T
爱情好甜蜜，剧情好好看，喜欢，虽然我是冲着爱情来的，但是真的是一部很有深度的电影，唉，以后不能叫阿三，要改口叫三哥了
特别好。青年无力撕扯故乡脐带，故乡则在叹息着接受新的规则。妈妈演的最好，但明显在都市的戏，导演就没有在汕头的灵动了，有点可惜。
6所有素人演员，都是小孩或亲戚，推荐他们来参演，半推半就被拉过来的，只有婵真婶是唯一自荐要来演戏的大妈，她也是打心里热爱演戏的。
1.“这种事为什么发生在我们身上呢？”估计这是大多数父母的心声吧。2.“之前结婚是因为你们，现在是因为法律”。电影很美好，生活很现实。
印度，警察，家里唯一的儿子，这几个标签加起来，足以把一个gay的柜子焊牢焊死。然而，他出柜了，他得到了妈妈的拥抱和抚摸，他是这世上最幸福的gay。 老师，姐姐，从小被妈妈打击讽刺，被前女友抛弃带走孩子，被恶心男假装拉拉恐吓，被婆婆撞见和女友爱爱而社死，所有经历加在一起很容易压垮一个女人，但是她是坚强的新印度女拉拉，她没有崩溃，并且她很幸运遇到了同样承担起责任的好gay，以及会选择站在她这边的爸爸，当大家选择共同面对，彩虹之力量无穷大。 喜欢这部电影所有事件走向的处理，她告诉我们也许我们也可以有所期待！
很无聊 只看了40多分钟，不是我不想看完，因为垃圾咪咕视频一直掉线 看十几秒要重新加载60秒广告，我看了十几次广告了。电影已经没心情看了。
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