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.
太棒太好看了！！！不愧是我最爱的圣刃！！！悬疑设置和氛围设计刚刚好，非常有电影质感，和一般的tv非常不一样。闭环式的结构真的非常好得展示了圣刃的“故事”主题，每一个故事就是经历了一次不一样的人生啊。
活在厉害国当下恐怕有更深的体会，美国社会需要改变
比TV好看，色彩也很唯美，剧情也有一定深意。
作为一部政治片反正是给我笑yue了。故事真是很好啊，在一个很好的前提里探索可能性。
东映经典父慈子孝，一小时的时间里塞进这么多剧情感觉还是有点太赶了，反派的动机缺乏逻辑性，但总体剧情把控不错。剧情前期给了小陆够多的伏笔，让人隐约能猜出小陆就是间宫，感觉如果像ea一样做成三部曲会更好一些
不至于像amazons那样悲剧和压抑，但也多添几份写实化的笔墨。
就这样继续bittersweet的life吧
拍摄手法之类的挺有意思，剧情嘛，见仁见智吧
整体十分优秀的一部作品，如果时长能在长一点，前面两条线应该能处理的更好
有深度的骑士电影不多了，就是太短了，很多细节没有展开
圣刃的发挥依旧稳定，无论是剧情演出还是叙事框架都达到了极高的水平，在逐渐子贡的假面骑士时代，圣刃交出了如同普通的优秀日剧一样的完美答卷，与之前任何整活性质的sb前作有着天壤之别。圣刃很难说会讲一个大道理，但圣刃仍然在浅层道理上大做文章，打出完美水漂，让人惊异于这部戏的独到之处。圣刃或许会成为假面骑士历史上的刻度尺，比圣刃好的绝对是神作，圣刃就是离神作一步之遥的完美佳作。
还挺好看的，欧亨利式结尾。剧情有点赶，伦太郎爹的动机有点立不住脚，其他都还可以吧。贤人新形态好看飞了，魅力无边，漂亮月神。八年后托马老师可真帅啊，当爹好加分，狠狠梦了。
剧场版时间有点短，有点紧，贤人和伦太郎的部分可以再演一点
托马老师最终还是一个人，活成了神的样子呜呜呜~
像闹着玩一样，唯一满意的的就是血飙的很满意
朋友们，看看，不take things seriously的人是多么可恶，简直想血压不上来都难。毁灭吧真的。/重点说说表姐，她已经很久没有打动我的角色了，但这次这个角色我意外觉得很可爱。
被时长耽误了，其实想打4.5来着，如果篇幅能更长一点，故事与人物能展开说一说，剧情会更顺更好，运用的三人交叉叙事不算很乱，但个人感觉也没有很高明，三条故事线要想一想才能理清，整体与tv的偏子供向完全不一样，三重奏探讨了更深的问题，在英雄背后不止有被保护的人也有被伤害的人，整体风格更近于amazons，是个好故事，ed真是神了，在一切尘埃落定之后一首蓝调让人回想一下saber的放映真是苦乐参半，放映到十集左右还为saber在微博上和特摄小鬼吵一架，口碑扭转的现在真是欣慰
挺有意思。开嘲讽力度可以：政治、财阀、传媒、大数据……都在射程中；民粹、反智、娱乐至死……全球无一幸免。（是谁说小李子这次表演类马景涛的？看完本片我已经被洗脑且深以为然
没想到无铭剑，一个二十分钟剧场版打酱油的、从剑身到皮套完全换色的玩意，苟成了本作最终boss级的存在，也算是励志了。有它在，还能一直写下去。
期待的是各位巨星大飙戏，但每个人都挺片面的，完全无考验。尽管如此，我还是喜欢这个片，荒诞自嘲未必无厘头，网络世界的各执一词、各自为伍、排兵布阵和资本指向…有一个贯穿始终的点，用免费零食想你收费的“玩弄权利”，是的，大部分时候你所无法理解的大可不必或怎么会这样的反向操作，都是权力在手的游戏而已。甜茶若能早点出场就好了，另外，考虑流浪地球吗？zg可以拯救世界奥～
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