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.
结尾出现了，根据真实事件改编，所以司法部长的女儿真的被射杀了？
7.1，真实事件改编，但南非还是那个南非。
根据真实事件改编 值得一看。银行主管小姐姐死得太冤了。
我不普通？我不正常？
追求自由的故事总是让人向往、感动。Captain, what's the price of freedom? I don't know. Everything.
看完第一反应：幸好不是真的弯掰直🤣
我不知道答案，我只知道还好有电影，还好有音乐，还好有诗歌，书籍，还好有思想
和标签不符,既不惊悚也不动作.太磨叽了.拍成半小时加几句旁白就行了!
奈飞的手和气魄……人类总是在做那些无意义的压制和自我感觉良好的事
电影很喜欢，是每年都想重温的那种。虽然我觉得拍成悲剧也不错...仅从艺术性上看（悲剧美学爱好者）
在“白人至上主义盛行”的国度，黑人肯定是最低贱的，可就算你是身居高位的白人，如果出言不逊，想做埋汰主义的事，那也得死。
真实事件改编，借一次所谓的恐怖事件，反映当时南非的种族黑暗……影片的细节刻画也很出色，人性的种种令人唏嘘。
困惑期的故事看完总是觉得疲惫和无聊，看剧时内心反应也会是“这没必要、没必要”“这也是大可不必”
What's the price of freedom？Everything.
神尾…之前我只看过恋之月和灰箱 灰箱不说了没有评价必要 给我留下的唯一印象就是不是好人 恋之月 可能是人设问题 还没这部好 演得中规中矩 病床上的情感爆发戏不太行 给人感觉很单薄 他还是比较适合演激情戏 蛮好看的哈哈哈
freedom has a price 看哭了
对于同性恋这种敏感题材，这部电影可以说是非常正能量和政治正确。但真的好伤心呀，周围人对安藤很好，但他内心的失落是永远无法弥补的，这就是命运的沉重吧。
今年到现在最暖心的一部电影，三浦小天使真的太可爱了吧~
任何一个同性恋都会有共情，都会被感动的片子。虽然很俗套，但是谁不想有人为自己这样挺身而出？
小翅膀啊，我一开始以为我看错了，吻戏让我震惊
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