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.
神奇啊有人觉得这电影的女主是好人。有人认为女主是坏人。作为一部悬疑电影能够引起大家如此的讨论，已经算是有一些成功了。整个电影看下来，我的个人理解倾向于女主不是一个坏人。作为一部平行空间的电影来说，我觉得还不错。
虽然略带生涩 但整体构思还是挺好的，不论故事模仿的是谁，这个故事本身还是很完整并且吸引人的。美中不足演员的表演不够收放自如，声音的制作也不完美
能挑出一箩筐毛病，尤其是啰嗦这一点，最核心的部分居然是靠主角的嘴直接说出来的，贵在有个情感内核，看下来居然还不错
瑕不掩瑜，缺点还是存在的，但是我觉得整体故事性很强，演员演技也在线，不出戏。
看来写好一个本子是真的难啊。郑雷已经很厉害了，但是这电影还是不能算好看。
导演和编剧是B站up主 经常科普一些关于电影的小知识。小成本 受制于篇幅很多坑也挖了没填。总的来说作为网大 完成度还行 多重平行空间概念虽然不新 还好演员还算可以 每个空间里的不同男女都有演出不一样的性格。听说好莱坞收了版权 可以期待一手好莱坞能不能有好翻拍。
这才是国产电影应该有的样子，钱花在刀刃上的电影就是和钱花在请流量明星上不一样。最后女主自杀成全另一个自己不落俗套，不管是真实还是梦境。我个人是喜欢幻灭情节和低落结局的，能把救赎拍得令人动容佩服编剧导演和演员的功力。
仅仅是一个为了表达平行宇宙概念而拍的片子，问题确实太多了。
导演网络自号编剧雷神，吐字清晰口齿伶俐，讲起话来井井有条，单这一点就比很多人强。这部作品虽然投资只有100万，但其实再把投资增加十倍，恐怕也不能使影片的观感好上十倍，说白了，影片效果不行，主要在人。影片上映后票房只有有21.3万，3星鼓励一下~
网大这么用心真难得，为了14天100万情感支持
国内少有的科幻悬疑大片，全程仅三名演员，电影质感很不错，观影过程中烧脑而又紧张，这个类型的电影国内真的少见，好莱坞风格蛮值得观看，推荐呀
台词太差 逻辑上没什么大问题 可能外国人看了会觉得还行吧 我的理解毕竟中文母语 我们很快能精准理解 但是外国人只看剧情 翻译再好一点 确实还可以
作为一部超低成本的国产电影，本片已经算很成功了。看得出来导演深受欧美惊悚片影响，《时空罪恶》，《恐怖游轮》，《彗星来的那一夜》这三部不知道他研究过多少遍，还顺便致敬了《闪灵》。叙事，演技，摄影都在水准之上，只是电影节奏太慢让我有点跑神，此类故事已经不算新了，基本上能猜到结局，场景也不多变，演员也就三个，拍到102分钟实在有些拖沓，如果能控制在80分钟左右也许看着会多一些娱乐性，节奏慢下来观众就容易去思考bug，这对科幻悬疑类，又是低成本的电影本身就没有好处。
小成本，观感超出预期了，100万的电影，各方面制作精良到这个地步是用心了。
特别喜欢郑雷导演的短视频作品。讲电影风趣幽默内容又分量很足。我为黑龙江能有这样优秀的导演而自豪。
首先，能以小成本拍出这样的逻辑闭环来就不应该得分这么低，四星表明我自己的态度，之所以不给五星是因为演员演技确实有些问题。剧情上来讲，最合理的解释是女主最终还是开枪给自己选了一个看上去最好的空间。多的我就不说了，很值得一看的好国产。
100万已经用的很极致了，剧情基本是没有硬伤的，看完可以讨论的很多。除了演员某些部分的表演有些尴尬之外，还是非常不错的～支持我偶像雷神～
还不错挺有意思，但也确实不算新鲜，而且节奏掌控和故事张力一般。
emmm，这片子只能说能看，准备好爆米花就完事了，别计较太多哈哈
脉络清晰的小成本电影，拍成这样真的很惊艳。
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