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.
有点旧西部片的影子，拘留所里来了几个狠家子，Sheriff 们很忙碌，谁是最后站立者的游戏。。。在充实和单薄之间徘徊的小制作
This movie gives comfortable mood in the first act and heartwarming in the other hand It give the big issue that your yakubd.net love is true or just one word. Many thing I don't like which all characters are flat and awkward conversation.
直到他签放弃财产的文件才明白，是亲姐弟关系啊？。。。
很精彩的电影…建议看原片！不过观看这种类型片子可能会引起一些老铁的反感吧……总之呢，我个人还是绝对这片子很不错，值得一看！！！！
对话太多且不递进，除了神经病安东尼，其余演员也都很凑活事
“听RED不是必然是《有心论》和《两个人》嘛”
故事不错，但节奏慢，情绪调动慢，还要个精神病表演，后期剪辑还需要再做的好一点。
工资为什么不私下去讨要呢 非要起诉 难道真的要去讹诈一把 这和女主家庭教育不符合啊
大女主剧，女主当然帅，但两个老猛男更帅，噼里啪啦一通打还是蛮精彩的，不过最后的反转似乎有点多余。
女主太惨了，什么都没做错却得到一个家破人亡的结局，作家妻女的死明明是他老婆有精神病导致的，他却把账算在女主头上，女主被折磨这么久也不想着反击，明面搞不过不会来个同归于尽吗
交代了个啥呀，最后也没说清楚女主家人到底怎么遇害的，尽搞莫名其妙的悬疑了
到底是谁在套路谁，我认为男女主都有可能有预谋。
本来可以拍的精彩绝伦，可惜编剧功力不够，全片看完竟然没有一句令人深刻的台词能回味，如果配角是以警察的身份切入而不是一个可有可无的记者身份，最后推理出每次杀人的细节，不是更有说服力！
嗯嗯！
挺好的剧情最后居然啥都没讲就结束了 女主妹妹难道是幕后操纵人吗
4.5分。除了女主的颜和身材，一无是处的烂片，男主老头那一脸欠扁的装叉样和无敌的o型腿倒是让人记忆深刻！好故事烂编剧的典型！
天怒即正义，以牙还牙，以命偿命，所以都是作家杀的，不过里面的侦查漏洞挺多，所以，总的来说一般般。
与其说天怒，不如说人怨。
说实话观影的感受非常不好，铺垫了很多，却又不给出答案，让观众心里有些发堵。也许这正是电影想要的效果吧。在没有明确的表示下，我只能按照电影镜头里的都是事实来思考。那就是最初发生的事情确实是巧合，而女主因为愧疚也没有去兑那张支票。后面女主家人身上的遭遇留给观众正反两种想象空间，有可能是巧合，也有可能是作家精心设计的复仇。最后一幕透露作家与女主妹妹的关系，似乎让作家精心设计的可能性更大了一些。依稀记得片头作家老婆曾邀请女主带妹妹来玩这么一幕，可见作家一家对女主的家庭背景是很有了解的。尤其反复强调作家对以牙还牙以眼还眼的论调，让人更加笃定这里面并非巧合。也许吧，开放结局就是留下那么多想象的空间。
我看电影总是不由自主地猜剧情。前半段以为Neal是已婚男出轨，对岳母去世无动于衷（而且总猜他到底为啥不回英国参加葬礼呢？）
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