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.
母女矛盾在一半的时候就被妈妈得癌症给消解了，完全不知道后面一半在拍什么。
还有，片中在首尾都有讲妈妈的梦想是去南极科考。年轻时本来被录取能去南极的，但是，因为怀孕她自己放弃了。她又自己主动去帮弟弟还债……
叙事的割裂感相当严重，大部分人物都表现的...不正常。但情感表达上还不错，不过我还是对亲情没什么特别的感觉，上一场《峰爆》我才哭的稀里哗啦。
全世界的母亲似乎都一个样，但又跟徐帆不一样，为什么讲话会这么端着啊，开场容易劝退人，虽然演技上没得挑剔。这个故事就是容易让你带着家人去看，但我又不想我妈看到，因为我满脑子都是二老平安喜乐的样子。张婧仪是胖了吗，看上去怪怪的🤨
影片就像是一颗针，轻轻地扎了心上一下，却很疼。
看了一些评论，很少有对电影内容进行分析的，大家联想到的都是自己经历，看到的都不是电影，而是看到了自己。从某种意义上看，这部电影是成功的，因为它戳中人们心中最柔弱的地方。
一切痛苦及负面情绪，都留在黑夜里独处时默默消化，真是太伟大了！（心疼季妈妈）
万万没想到，这部当年在中关村天桥拍摄时我差点蹭上出镜的作品竟给我了今年迄今为止最差劲的影院体验；徐帆的这个表演属于是那种极差却还自我感觉良好的，真令人无语
受骗了。倒不是被普通观众推出来的口碑骗了，而是天坛奖。一部剪辑点大范围出错的电影，居然还能参加北影节主竞赛，这……起初以为本片采取的是克制配乐策略，后来发觉是实在没什么能听的配乐，太烂了。除了张婧仪不太接得住戏，演员的整体发挥倒还不错。有些观众觉得徐帆演得有问题，其实是角色讨人厌——这类人当然存在，我也讨厌这类人。话说回来，在华语女性主义电影愈来愈好的时代，一个剧本写得这么烂俗，片中存在大段废戏，又有哪个角色是讨喜的呢？
演员不错，剧情还行吧。我突然听到赵晓苏声音！
套公式套得很准确，但我不喜欢这样的母亲形象。
关于我妈的一切 是跟妈妈一起看的
题材很好，赚眼泪，但感觉为了赚眼泪而赚眼泪
资源女主你有，导演资源你也有，有钱，有发行，有院线，就不能沉下心来创作，关于妈妈，你们多看看一些类似片子再拍！我还以为翻拍阿莫多瓦的呢，你瞅瞅你们拍的什么啊？
它就是虽然一些剧情很俗套，但是还是会控制不住的哭。
2011年电影版豆瓣8.4分
影片整体的铺陈都太满了，又没有一个合理的结束，母女，夫妻，姐弟，所有人物之间的冲突和解都只是因为母亲患了癌症，我没有看到任何深层次的反思，这样无私奉献，什么都要管的母亲形象，到最后为止，导演给出的解释也只是这是我的选择，人物形象设置太单薄了，所有的家庭矛盾都被这样看似无私奉献的“母亲形象”掩盖了。最大的问题还有徐帆的表演，她说台词的方式太诡异了，就像一个中年傻白甜。
我就知道自己泪点太低会从头哭到尾。片子哪儿都挺好的，就是主题不行，癌症不是解决亲子关系甚至所有家庭关系的特效药，这只是用意外来掩盖矛盾，永远没有解决。
电影看完了，有泪点，徐帆演技尚可，演绎母亲管女儿的很多地方其实都可以联想到自己母亲的影子，不过影片翻拍自韩国电影，有些桥段挺有韩剧的影子，略有违和，总体质量还行。不过节奏比较缓慢，个人评分：7分。推荐观看！
看的首映，主创很用心的在宣传，但确实这部片子的剧情很拉，为了制造矛盾设置巧合，生硬刻板，导演还很生硬的模仿了一些其他经典电影，侯孝贤不知道看了有什么想法……全片最大的亮点就是徐帆的用心演绎，妈妈的心理演的很细腻，但整体塑造又过于正面，一个活生生的人不应该是平面的，只有正面的，表演有层次，可惜人物本身没层次
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