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.
Politics is a bloody hole of mystery. Never get involved into it if you’re trying to keep pure and idealistic.
中规中矩……谈政治和权谋，韩国还是太嫩了……
只有李书记是明白的：胜利了就是革命，立场不同罢了，你相信你的金老师，我也相信我的阁下。
不知道评分为什么这么低？明明很好看啊，就是字幕太乱了，有时候靠猜和上下文来理解。
韩国选举制就有问题，各种脏手段层出不穷，这就是自由民主？韩国总统有几个善终的？
韩国电影人太爱金大中了，哪怕一丝灰尘都不允许他有。
朴卡卡在室内开个会还戴墨镜，青瓦台是黑社会的老巢吗？
②:要是手段代替了目的怎麽辦?
我们为了正义可以使用各种手段。
通过这部电影开始了解邻居国度的政权更迭，看看旁人的世界，勿论是非。
柏拉图说，
卑鄙是卑鄙者的通行证，
【B】娱乐性十足但又不失内涵的政治片 两位男主的选角太成功了 在影片里尽情飙戏的样子的真的很加分 从开头亦师亦友般柏拉图与亚里士多德师生关系的影射 再到被离间因为误会分道扬镳 这样的关系变化看完真的游有些怅然若失的感觉 唯一有点影响观感的就是看的字幕版本翻译出入太大 加上主角均使用了化名 对韩国历史了解不深到了影片中段的确会有些糊涂
这两位可真是好演员啊，全程飙戏看得很爽。政治说来复杂，但用最初和最后两种不同解决鸡蛋被偷的方法的例子来概括好像也没有什么问题
4.10下午和mao AA在3段4层会议室观看，字幕太差劲了，勉强看明白剧情了，有点意思。
翻译字幕太差了，影响观感，但真的不错，镜头语言还是表演，都非常出色，值得一看。
糟糕的翻译，复杂的人名，地名，导致我没有完全看懂，但一大部分归结于个人对韩国的历史不太熟悉
双男主哪是什么友谊，太强大了就会拥有很多目的为利用的“友谊”，只要你一直被需要，假象就不会被打破。
在法制不健全的情形下，结果正义更重要。
我肯定是不会因为非常生气也变成偷鸡蛋那种人的，也不会去栽赃陷害偷鸡蛋那个人，也不会以德报怨把鸡蛋再送给那偷鸡蛋的人，奢望他能良心发现不再过来偷鸡蛋。
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