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.
目前国产类型片中难得一见的复杂剧本，颇有些一波三折，还有一个比较合理的小反转。看得出，这剧本经过了精心的打磨修改，导演编剧当废了不少时间，好不好看放一边，至少他用心了。影片呈现的整体质感也不错，从始至终情绪统一，置景也比较精细，年代感也做出来了。只不过可能因为追求这个“淡”字及影片艺术性，叙事方面节奏有些拖，有些散，有些飘，其实如果把影片时长精简到100分钟，或者放弃艺术性就按照商业犯罪片的节奏拍，成片的可看性与精彩度会提升不少。当然，即使是现在这样，这片也值得大大鼓励，毕竟国产片认真动脑子的太少了。
最近刚看了《心灵猎人》，本来真实探案的题材挺吸引我的，开场也很有特色，但是这位老队长看着挺老练，但就是个样子货，你说你脾气大，不尊重人没关系，你得拿出点真本事来压得住人吧，没有，他就只是脾气大不尊重人，这种人看着是真的恶心。
主演跟着《孤狼》一起变2了，就传承个打火机？
片名怎么也不像悬疑片。更像是文艺片。
除了西野七濑演技有点遭其它都很不错，这东京拍的比哥谭还黑暗
在这两年的电影里，甭管是不是网大，这样就算合格了。
哈哈哈哈最后是cg。
有点拉垮了。还有88年的枪准头都那么不好吗？？20米的距离竟然打不着
本来时隔好久已经把孤狼1的内容忘掉了。结果重回开一看感觉又有那味了。
悬疑剧情确实不足，但是色调和镜头挺美的！就有一类刑警吧总觉得自己刑侦才是科学，其他都不是科学。这时候活该你们刑警被一个叫夏洛克·福尔摩斯的人治的死死的，锁住，毫无翻身机会。
7.2分 不过在如今的日系黑帮片里确实属于上等作品。本片一点都没有港味，别被误导！就因为有了大多数的黑帮片都会设计的情节套路就港味了？PS：建议看第二部之前先看第一部，不然会感触不深。
想问最后一幕那个水边群山是哪里啊？真是好一幕远山淡影，十分切题。
和第一部比差了很多，反派演的像个变态杀人狂，警察明显气场不足震不住场子，唯一有亮点的是线人，西野演的妈妈桑也不够风尘。总体来说一般。
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虽不是狗尾续貂，但不如第一部多矣。大上怎么平衡上司与黑道的日冈还是不如呀，整个警察团队就没其他好人了？大上还有同僚掩护，日冈就真的是匹孤狼了。
主角是我看过的电影里面少数的一无是处还各种讨人厌的主角了，情节各种逻辑不通，最后单挑的设定简直是侮辱观众智商，这个系列就到此为止算了。
。。。画面都点不引起不适，素质和上一部基本齐平
就大林子这种精神病型yakuza，通常活不过三集，怎么会作威作福至此，他手下每个人都有责任，暗地里给他一枪什么都解决了，也不用承受如此巨大的职场压力
警察队长调查土枪，被击倒，画像师开枪俘获枪匪；
小狼太嫩，瘋狗太彪。劇情後段極為不通順，最後的決戰看不懂：一個需要四五個獄警才能制服的瘋狗有槍不用，用刀，還打不過一個帶著手銬身負重傷的瘦弱主角？伯恩嗎？那麼能打？
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