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.
Emma的面容似乎更适合流媒体屏，本片中的颜艺表演堪比大宝贝。
从男主被铁锹打一下，然后听到卷发妹的声音开始，男主就死了！故事告诉我们废话多害死人！直接就一降魔杵，完事儿！
进入封闭空间的死循环，其实本可以拍得很好的，但剪辑得一塌糊涂。
跳舞那场戏和床戏都很养眼，法国人拍爱情片就是浪
鬼片套路，明知山有虎 偏向虎山行，无语了这些大学生
感觉哪哪都差几口气，就算几口气都续上，估计也就那样。
风间就是丑版且没演技的刘佩琦，他和本田翅膀那部演的还不够让人恶心吗。以他这种长相实力除了背靠大事务没其他解释。
不符史實，國家大劇院也可以拍一部愛情片的😂
这故事情节怎么可能是传记？杜撰的吧！这也编得太离谱了？女主的美无法欣赏，脸部比例太奇怪了，嘴巴太大了，脸盲的我看着这些长胡子的男人在镜头里晃来晃去，真不好辨认。而且演女儿的女演员脸上的斑多得实在太吓人了。不过很多个修建铁塔的大镜头拍得真是不错。
重点讲的埃菲尔的爱情故事，建塔只是顺带一提，但是故事讲得也很一般。一星服化道，一星男主演技。
用一个爱情事故——铁塔主创爱上了一个有妇之夫——贯穿铁塔建造过程的故事。
被抖音骗来看的，一塌糊涂加枯燥无味，果然看电影前还是要先看看豆瓣再去考虑看不看。
认真看就输了，估计导演自己都没搞清楚编剧编得什么鬼
循环没《恐怖游轮》好看，恐怖都是靠漆黑的环境、一惊一乍的画面、突然出现的鬼脸、扭曲的马赛克营造出来的，后半部分还是有惊喜的，总体及格以上吧
……为数不多的实在看不下去，进b站看解说的恐怖片……
想起了疫情前那个美好的秋天，也是目前为止最后一次出国，遇到了浪漫的埃菲尔铁塔，没想到铁塔的背后还有这样的爱情故事，也吊起了我曾有的心绪与回忆，为了那份情怀多加一星
就希望龙也老师继续贡献"殉情卖书"这样的扎心金句。
一般吧，时间线和逻辑有点混乱，让人看不懂，有些镜头挺吓人的
【鬼门】=【鬼们】，短小精干还算不错，氛围是到位了，时空交错你猜猜你到底是活着还是挂了？
艾菲尔铁塔背后的爱情故事，画面很美，故事有点单薄。
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