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.
这里是缅甸北部，我生长的地方。中国电电影喜欢把这种犯罪窝点设在泰国缅甸，韩国电影喜欢把犯罪窝点设在中国，不知道是不是这原因所以评分才这么低。其实是部很过瘾的商业动作片，电信诈骗国内也拍过，可没有人家拍的这么好看，结局太过美好，现实里可残酷多了。看完电影忍不住想下载国家反诈中心app。
挺好的看的比较有意义，电信诈骗的题材 不错不错
还可以啊。谢苗小时候挺正派的长相，现在似乎更适合这种亦正亦邪的角色。。。
为妻报仇，千里追凶
主演是当年跟着李连杰演打戏的小孩哇。
禁绝毒品 功在当代 利在千秋✊ 最后销烟的那段看着还是挺感慨的。
从剧本上说 这个是最好的防止电信诈骗的电影
反电信诈骗的题材不错，但黑中的老毛病还是不少😅
能少黑点国内空气不好就好
就算没有我，也有千千万个人顶上来去做。。。
韩国电影确实比较敢拍，电信诈骗题材值得一拍。
从网大市场中来看，敢于挑战“虎门销烟”这一历史题材就值得鼓励，一星给敢于尝试的团队。
剧本，演技，动作指导简直无可挑剔，谢苗可以的，现在网大直逼院线烂片，只是主旋律用在这个地方有点违和了，林则徐和清政府在当时硝烟事件和结果是有争议的，总的来说，好片子
剧本不错，就是地点一定要放在中国吗？东南亚国家才是电信诈骗的重灾区吧……
2星给画面，剧情不合理，浮夸，传统的港式单挑，男主光环，不中那枪多好，没必要
可以了，真的可以了，一个网大拍成这样，如果都这样那真是未来可期了，剧情还挺饱满的，打斗场面也够丰富，鸡蛋里的骨头就是没有拍硝烟的画面
这算是小谢演的这么多片子里略微好一些的，可能是题材成熟，投资和演员班底都跟得上一些～只是编剧仍旧短板，结尾有点莫名其妙的安排了～姚橹演坏蛋多了，怎么都不太像正气凛然林则徐，老觉得他会卖官贪腐，气质问题～杜玉明对打谢苗，还是有些可看的～可能谢苗想学当年的劳模刘德华，大量拍片堆积磨练，总有出头的一天～
服化道 666 啊→_→
完成度不错，尽管是号称乳化，可乳的太不专业，片中居然挂着沈阳卖西安我也是醉了。
剧情流畅，无反智设定，动作热血，中间两段打斗的背景电子乐有点出戏。
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