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.
环境灾难片，灾难场景做得还可以，剧情没有什么太多令人惊喜的地方，希望故事可以更精彩一些。
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挪威。不像美国人那么夸张，但处理危机还是很迅速。电影还行吧。
反转有点大的电影，一个小时半的时候结局和最终结局是完全不一样的。很俗套的剧情，但是演的很不错。剧中的合唱很好听，片尾曲也很好听。
how should i live
cute goofiness 三人行还有很多微表情都设置得很到位 Manny Jacinto简直freaking hot
灾难是次要的，
故事狗血格局也不咋地，环保白左。。。特效也不行
特效和氛围搞得不错 剧情完全就是女主一意孤行 高级版英雄主义罢了
镜头氛围和特效不错,幸存于难,有点海啸奇迹的意思,结尾警示人类与自然的关系升华了
中途睡着了。选角太成功了，这么小的演员能演成这样活着做自己成这样真的了不起。
对于灾难片来说情节有点太平淡了，勉强3.5星。
有个超能干的女友，真的很重要。
彩虹配色都铺满了 还是什么都不敢说 而且这剧情Glee里随便拉一集都比这好看
加入了很多不必要的线条以充实剧情，相反拖慢了叙事节奏，选角也有问题。更关键的是价值观保守，这类题材，如果不在表达上有所突破，必然流于庸俗。
One of those movie night movies... I like Jenny Slate though, and Manny Magnus was great!
从灾难发生到救援过程都很平淡，没有同类型灾难片那种险象环生的刺激感，即便如此还是能吸引人看下去，人物对白没有刻意的废话，平铺直叙反而让人觉得亲切，这很挪威。至于近未来油气资源枯竭带来的问题目前应该是没办法解决了吧，除了当下能省则省这一招。
難看⋯⋯
他得多爱她，才会冒死陪她登上一个即将崩塌沉入深海的钻井平台去救她的男友……还有，最后居然看到了F-35
只有亚瑟受伤的世界达成了，本来指望大火场面能再多一点，大一点。
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