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.
螺蛳壳里做道场，原来是《模仿游戏》编剧当导演，the perfection is necessary goal precisely because it is unattainable, if you don't aim for perfection, you cannot make anything great, and yet, true perfection is impossible,
角落里坐着失望的领路人，我也想进去给她一沓零用钱，可还是把门缝合上了。
看完后想到一个词：空手套白狼。深藏不漏的裁缝店老板玩转众人。
不会编剧的黑帮成员不是好裁缝。靠对话驱动的电影，真的有必要拍电影么？讨厌这种阴险狡诈老裁缝，英国黑帮迫害你，你搞芝加哥黑帮？
当编剧技法完全过时之后，只有范儿还能保留价值了
角落里坐着失望的领路人，我也想进去给她一沓零用钱，可还是把门缝合上了。
我能把正的忽悠斜了，能把蔫的忽悠谑了，能把尖人忽悠嗫了，能把俩帮派过的挺好，我给他忽悠灭团了。
7.0/10 分。初看，蓝光。一出舞台剧。。。为啥好多电影里，黑帮老大都有一个蠢儿子。。。
情节so so，好多地方不可深究，但Mark Rylance一个人撑起一整部电影，好演员还是让人看得过瘾
I want so bad to be good. I am not a tailor. I am a cutter
太励志、太四平八稳。北野武老混蛋这么有趣的人，怎么只能有师徒情义这一段啊。人们太爱看英雄微贱之时的事，因为只有他们能挣脱琐碎的生活，活出滚烫的人生，其他人则在日常平庸里消磨到死。英雄是现实生活的反面，是替我们飞翔的分身。
说话是门艺术。只有一个房间布景戏，话剧式的感受，主角魅力值max。不是裁缝，是剪裁师，凭一把剪刀走南闯北，参加过一战的男人，怎么可能简单。
严丝合缝，正如Mark Rylance的表演
我啥也不知道地进了电影院，零预想，看完感觉还挺有劲头儿的。室内戏。
后半断断续续地哭了三次，第一次哭的时候觉得，奥这个煽情还挺老套的但是我吃了。第二次下意识又哭了出来，却突然被逗乐地笑出了声来，心想诶这里很新奇，可以！以为这就是高潮了，不料最后的这个一镜到底实在是太自然太舒服了，不光是眼泪止不住地留下来，喉咙开始哽咽，鼻子时隔好久好久没有这么酸了，甚至都快忘记了这种感觉。不得不说剧情是「老套」的励志加昔日挽歌，但是节奏相当明快顺畅，剧团一人（作为导演）的才华不得不让人感叹。
他是一个cutter，不是tailor.
3.5吧。故事挺过瘾的，单一场景小制作悬疑。但未免过于精雕细琢，设计感太强，情感浓度不足。气质有点像《利剑出鞘》。老头的戏当然不错，但没有达到他个人最佳水平。
扮猪吃老虎的典型故事，但是这里面的猪好像也是无奈之举。老裁缝温和的可怕，不知道从这种平淡到底是演技上面的局限，还是自己对角色的表达就是如此。
后半断断续续地哭了三次，第一次哭的时候觉得，奥这个煽情还挺老套的但是我吃了。第二次下意识又哭了出来，却突然被逗乐地笑出了声来，心想诶这里很新奇，可以！以为这就是高潮了，不料最后的这个一镜到底实在是太自然太舒服了，不光是眼泪止不住地留下来，喉咙开始哽咽，鼻子时隔好久好久没有这么酸了，甚至都快忘记了这种感觉。不得不说剧情是「老套」的励志加昔日挽歌，但是节奏相当明快顺畅，剧团一人（作为导演）的才华不得不让人感叹。
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