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.
带5岁孩子去看的，旁边3岁的小孩都要被猫吓哭了，小孩子真是很单纯。我女儿第一次看电影，基本上可以看到还剩10分钟的状态就有些坐不住了。整体我感觉比较温馨，美佳妈妈也很让人感动。小老鼠的爸爸也是非常好的角色设定。
唯一的价值是某某影片低配版的电影，有什么价值呢？
反派演技合格 动作设计还不错的 4分肯定有
开头觉得还不错，结果只有开头不错。对于小朋友叫女主大婶非常不理解。
女主的单眼皮看起来很酷，开场追车戏就是速度与激情，也没有过于夸大女性的战斗力，老板被重创后抽着烟侃侃而谈的样子帅呆了。
小男孩挺讨厌的。套用了这个杀手不太冷的壳子
带孩子看的第一部电影，多久没进电影院了，都变按摩椅了。
朴素丹非常可以 很有 Baby Driver 的感觉。（有人总说韩国动不动把坏人写成脱北者，是因为真的有这些脱北者和那些社会现象…… 有先有后）
一星给朴素丹，一星给可爱的孩子，一星给侧方停车！
工业模板流水线作品，商业节奏把控得不错，但女主的本身形象与其剧中人物感觉无法统一。
他们4个小鸡都很搞笑，又很可爱。人物都很善良。
不过女主长得也太嫩了吧，这28看着和18似的，可惜没脚脖子
很相似题材的电影相比，没有任何亮点，最主要这个熊孩子太让人讨厌了，真是被简介里的一句女版的大叔给坑了。能比吗！？
小朋友第一次进影院看的电影~ 必须要MARK一下~
实在受不了这样的小孩人设，太招烦。只看车戏和动作戏就完了，剧情很烂很旧。
根本是《这个特送不太冷》啊
玩命速递韩女版。冲朴素丹看的，算是比较平庸的了，没啥亮点。看看小姐姐还行
合格的爽片，这个剧情模式看到金义成的社长还以为是模范出租车拍电影了，朴素丹饰的女主很出彩。
最后结局没飙车戏差评
前面的赛车戏很精彩，中间那些煽情戏有点拖剧情了。
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