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.
最后的决斗好看。话说回来什么时候国内都是这种普遍摄影氛围，起码电影工业就是电影工业了吧。
这部杂交电影不费吹灰之力做到了。
远不如同类型的《绿衣骑士》，能演夫妻的演母子，能演父女的演夫妻，还有女武神带着牙套直奔英灵殿，由于太难以置信我甚至倒回去看了两遍，如果有人能解释这一设置的缘由请务必豆邮我。
老生常谈的哈姆雷特复仇故事也实在拍不出什么新意了，哪怕是换了个历史背景，影片后半就只剩下一次又一次的血腥杀戮，看得很累
则差了不少
你以为把H换了个顺序我就不认识你了？？？视听还不错但这个故事线也太粗劣的照搬平铺直叙了吧……
哈姆雷特王子复仇记？连男主名字都叫阿姆雷特，故事很平，力气全使在服化道上了，不说我以为看的是欧洲风光片
我有时候还认不清谁是主角
尚气和他爸对打的时候，他爸说“你还在害怕我”。这个部分太真实了，太像平时和父母吵架的时候了
动作场面和背景音乐契合到让人拍手叫好的武打
I guess this is what peak testosterone looks like...killing people and fucking women. The casting is exceptional, though it inevitably feeds into racism (as it probably was back in 600AD: the bastard is black-haired, everyone else blonde. Desirable women and bearers of kings can also look like Björk, no?
3.5制作精良，就是剧情以现在眼光看来像非常冗长的游戏，到了等级才能解锁的武器，强行的剧情杀和末日火山般史诗单挑boss战。可能是服务仪式感的一种妥协吧。哈姆雷特的改造倒是非常不错。
好吧，风格是很独特，但是神神叨叨的，哈姆雷特改编成了这个样子，真有点接受不能！
北欧版的Hamlet，影像化得很有史诗感。不过莎剧的魅力在于台词啊，没了那份华丽和韵律，就只是平庸。
《维京传奇》艺术电影版；篇幅略长，特别是讲述一个相对简单熟悉的“哈姆雷特”故事，服化道和对北欧神话传奇的还原很真实。3星半吧。
画面挺美，但是故事有点薄弱和邪乎…以及实在太血腥了
北欧上古巫祭祀仪式纵览，外搭官能卖肌肉血风暴。（3.5）
5分吧，多一星给梁朝伟~一个可怜的空巢老人因为儿女常年在外太过寂寞思念亡妻而被电信诈骗的故事~
特别特别好的一部院线电影，导演对主流观众做了一小部份的妥协，但是仍然保持了极具个人风格化的镜头语言和摄影。剧情非常平铺直叙，如果导演拥有最后剪辑权的话可能会把每一个章节的故事剪的更细碎繁复一些。最后的决斗拍的太好了。it's OK you don't like the film, but at least you should appreciate it. The horrendous box office of this film officially marks the death of blockbuster theatrical release from non-Disney publishers.
说实话，相比起这样的大制作大阵容，同样的故事或许用 [麦克白的悲剧] 那样的载体更能让Robert Eggers大施拳脚，观感上的去风格化相当明显。
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