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.
我就怀疑他被天才女友启发了灵感，觉得我也可以回家那不勒斯一下。一众寒冷/无言的北气之后，回归意大利就是回归了生命;D 黄油沙丁鱼面之后开工，气息充沛。所以他最后还是去了罗马。十多年后拍出大美之城，说罗马时刻徘徊于绝美与腐败之间。索伦蒂诺，也如很多个人风格强烈的“作者导演”，是否万年四星，可能真的要去教宗一下才能感知。今年奥斯卡一众下来都很一般，喜欢的只有日本和这部。虽隐约感觉挖掘不足，作为自传电影绝对强过爱尔兰那位。六月飞罗马。复活节Reggio访故人。进入“每年度假都去同一个地方"的无聊人士生活安排:) 想一出是一出的青年人（早年的我）不知道找到可以一而再再而三去做的事其实是一种福赐。
最喜欢的一场戏是母亲接到情妇电话后的歇斯底里。男孩的腿在发颤，无法抑止。只有这时，电影中夸张的情感恰到好处地成为一种可信。
索伦迪诺就是那个采阴补阳，吸取年轻男子精魂的老妖婆
有两位“那不勒斯熟人”出演，男主长得好像莉拉的演员盖娅·吉拉切…
如此私人的青春追忆，命运与家庭、足球与电影、爱与失去，在欢乐与悲剧相互交织中，命运的齿轮已然开始转动。
为什么从神谕入手一个家庭故事，可能这就是那不勒斯的戏谑？我喜欢那些很真实的聊天，但是为什么总有一些伏笔暗示之后的事，导致这自传式正叙有宿命感。尽管华美，可是有些剧情真让人觉得离谱而没啥共鸣。有现代科技拍摄的费里尼小镇片段，很美很怀念。噢这个人群中哭泣的背影我要加入十佳。《米格尔街》罢了
能感觉到是导演很私人的一部影片，导自己的过去，除了随意叙事的真实感，还有对过去超现实的还原，其实也是种慰藉吧 （那不勒斯真的很美，想起小学的磁带随身听了）
上帝那双看不见的手一直左右着人间的悲喜，每个人的长大都是故事
呃。从父母双亡那里才觉得导演是要寄托很多私人化的记忆在电影里，后半段像是豆瓣8分电影该有的样子了。年度最佳，算了吧
少年的碎片私人成长日记。
别人都在庆祝迭戈，只有自己孤独而悲伤
太好看了，有点后悔没有去电影院看。那不勒斯，足球，夏天，度假，大家庭，建筑…种种我再熟悉不过的意大利日常生活的符号，在索伦蒂诺镜头下都变得更有意思。前半段和后半段的明显分割，过去与未来，童年与成长。走吧！到罗马去！（他爸妈去世的时候我甚至以为那是个prank）
于索伦蒂诺而言，罗马，是重生绽放的地方，那不勒斯，是回不去的家，是忧愁与青春，是费里尼与马拉多纳，是上帝之手的点拨与命运之神的玩笑，是“现实很糟糕，所以我想拍电影”最终梦想的萌芽点。所以，他成就了罗马之城的绝美，年轻气盛的哲思，那不勒斯的哀思与乡愁，个人认为，索伦蒂诺是目前意大利唯一最具大师气象的导演。
马拉多纳的上帝之手和小姨带来的灵感之源哪个更难舍弃？依然记得当年在那不勒斯海湾看过的魔幻日落，热气腾腾的接头，但不会了解大家庭的聚会里的杯弓蛇影，缺爱的阿姨们和缺发的叔叔们在想些啥。开场的小修士很魔幻，就像青春的影子。父母在新屋突然离去，深夜游荡在卡普里岛的接头，会一下在监狱里和父亲重遇的朋友，获得反对自由发言导演提出建议的自由，踏上去往罗马之路。不由想起细腻和隐忍的《罗马》，这部更加多彩缤纷。
对我来说，部分情节这部《上帝之手》中总有一种《西西里的美丽传说》和《晚娘》的感觉。
索伦蒂诺足够真诚，用饱满的情感讲述了自己的青春的痛苦和欲望。相比之下，肯尼斯布拉纳应该赶紧把《贝尔法斯特》打包扔进垃圾桶，假装自己从没拍过。
海邊藍色的那不勒斯，遼闊而迷離，伴隨著馬拉多納的到來，略微岣嶁的青澀少年，和一大家老小們歡快而悠閒的生活著，各種雞毛蒜皮的小事，性感的小姨，出軌的父親，活潑的母親，惡作劇的歡樂，似乎就這樣一直過著，等待馬拉多納將會帶來的冠軍，然而，一場變故奪去了少年的父母，也是因為他要看馬拉多納現場而躲過劫難，瞬間的長大，終於讓少年明白了自己的方向，上帝之手，指引他走向未來導演的夢想…
一定程度上，或许既是索伦蒂诺的《罗马》，他的《痛苦与荣耀》、他的《天堂电影院》，但是其实也都不是。没有功成名就的荣归故里，只有少年人历经沧桑的走出乡土，前后两半的情绪截然不同，前半部分欢快、诙谐、活色生香，将少年情愫放在马拉多纳如天神下凡般降临拿波里的时代中，那些充满私人的视角和意大利南部风情画般的年代生活都带有几分魔幻色彩的浪漫，父母之间吵吵闹闹又温馨幽默的相处，随后横遭变故的人生际遇，让眼神纯净的小伙终于萌发要走出去、要拍电影的志向，无论是马拉多纳那些神迹时刻、启蒙缪斯灿烂光辉又困于精神病院的隐喻，火山即将喷发的象征意义，再到由风情老妇开启的成人岁月，索伦蒂诺信手拈来的种种符号讲述了一个少年走向重生，走向外面的世界的启蒙历程。（为帕特丽夏小姨的性感加一星）
从那天起，那些不堪的，伤心的往事，那些美好的，天真的回忆，那些浪漫的，激情的邂逅都随着男孩的离开而永远留在了美丽的那不勒斯，"上帝之手"或许更多地发生在"事在人为"。
都有一个无法忘却的夏天。在观看过的影像中，那不勒斯快成我的意大利故乡了。
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