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.
在套路用尽的情况下，还能够反转得如此彻底，可谓是编剧之功。主角团也将颜艺化的表演贯彻到底，放飞的氛围以至于常常能让人忽略逻辑的脱链和情节的粗疏。
最后的masami好可爱
除了反派太蠢太菜以及演技浮夸之外，达子的这个局很是可以。蚯蚓还蛮好笑。
3.5星。脑洞还是很大，每个角色还是非常符合人物个性。时势造英雄，时代变化了，英雄的存在意义也变了。
前半部分还觉得有点意思，最后就有点套路啦！ 小少爷也太惨了
有前两部的铺垫之后，看这电影都不用担心了。反正女主这么聪明，一定能化险为夷的。
就说日本百合什么时候能拍一个同水准的，我就感恩戴德了
可怜的小少爷，每次都被达子无情地当成多情的工具人来用~
只能说…
可以了，不要再拍了。感觉又费钱又不好看，套路都一样，不能玩个别的IP吗？还有，尽量不要让我看到东出的脸了，谢谢。
很失望，人设崩……设定也崩……2小时的电影比3.4个小时的电视剧讲的内容都多
黑泽妈妈算是唯一真实的人类
算是圆了个梦吧 很多情节我做梦都没想到它能出现在大荧幕上
前面铺垫真的好难熬啊
做的还不错的一个系列，反正充满欢笑，也映照梦想。真的是日本难得的商业系列电影了。
开头是校园少女漫，纯得发指，甜到酣，看人谈恋爱果真是人生一大喜事，不自觉的跟着他们嘴角上扬幸福得发抖。中间集中精力欣赏黑泽的美颜暴击，小凑则可爱的和洋娃娃一样，心也化了！后面的见家长剧情，两位妈妈演技分别炸裂了，虽然一家有些困惑但很快接受和另一家稍微有些抗拒但也被说服有些理想过头不符现实？但也不用所有drama都需要走写实路线，当个“美梦”看看和其不香。
反转宇宙~自成一派了~依旧是非常开心的观看体验~
反转多到数不过来了，大家都在演戏，只有小少爷真情实感，被达子当做纯纯工具人，实惨。
【只有小少爷受伤的世界达成了】
先表白一波长泽女士 她用绝对的个人魅力撑起了这个系列 就连她的嘴角纹和法令纹在我眼里都那么真实可爱 大制作下满意的是各种小细节和引申 痛哭着说要洗心革面的东出 杰西(春马)去旅行了 诈欺剧情看太多了全在意料之中
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