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.
除了偶尔几个镜头终于让我get到横滨流星的帅了其他一言难尽
剧本像是编剧着急着赶紧拿钱走人（但也并没有折损太多幽默感），中田秀夫倒是良心大放送搞了个类型片买一得三。
齿虫那个牙医太惨了，本口腔医学生看得泪流满面
寄生虫好评（确实有被瘆到）
由短剧构成的拼盘恐怖片，大学生小组课的水平，不建议观看
恐怖片入门鉴别大赏。意在用10个小故事把最基本款的恐怖套路讲给你听。
【复活】塑料姐妹花黑暗仪式的约定
（2.5/10）純驚悚走向，為了嚇人而嚇人，關鍵是每次結尾處理的爛到爆。
看的机翻版，效果不好，我真的会谢！抛开字幕原因，齿虫、人体模特、密室逃脱几个小故事还是不错。
看一半睡着了，醒来继续看又差点把我干趴下。 生病去医院 有困难找警察。 5/10
8、爱美的代价
剧情的发展只能说太白开水了，女主和剧情的两相呼应也非常直白，取景和运镜都挺不错，败在剧本上了！
求求你别把首领翻译成大当家，别的我都能接受
有几个小故事创意还不错 齿虫 人体模型 姐妹 逃脱
流星弟弟造型帅的没边，但似乎这么多年了演技没有什么太大提升…当然本身故事太中二也很难发挥(。没看过原著，变种龙傲天，听后面小哥哥说风格像liar game
我觉得横滨流星适合演这种角色。就是有一点邪性，然后很多地方又很单纯…说不出的感觉？
好久没这么爽，女演员都选的太漂亮，很容易出戏
怎么说，就蛮一般的，之前吹得这么厉害，也没逃过今年恐怖片必烂的魔咒，什么暗黑童话啥的气氛完全没起来，还不如小孩瘦骨嶙峋的身子可怕呢。
挺喜欢的分段式恐怖片，虽然很多桥段都似曾相识。部分铺垫很到位，结果包袱抖出来也不过如此。演员长得都挺好看的，常常会让我更加关注颜值，而忽略他们角色的状态
故事主线不就在赤裸裸地影射美国锈带衰败萧条工业镇被毒品侵蚀沦向覆灭的事实嘛？拿个变异吃人怪物又当引线又具像化毒品滥用怎么慢慢把人变鬼的直白展示也太无趣了。传说中的矿井鹿怪wendigo就是毒品本品（吞噬人类的邪魔）、越饿越想吃人肉（成瘾）、虚弱时可灭之（成瘾至深无药可嗑时容易心梗猝死，女主最后也是杀怪取其心）老婆死子变异还到处吃人（家破人亡贻害社会）…这就一部禁毒教育片啊，身抗社会责任感这种具有奉献精神的特定职业即小学女教师的女主化身杀鹿斗士当然必须得成为拯救下一代的抗毒英雄啊，谁让你是教师呗，你就必须是正义使者，你不上谁上？你弟是警察最后咳血他不牺牲谁牺牲嘛，职业决定了影片结束后他得嗝屁…..姐弟一个奉献一个牺牲，俩给安排得明明白白的，如此无聊只能送上🙄️
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