Summary

In this classic trains-and-guns frontier drama, railway construction boss Jim Vesser (Edmond O'Brien) takes on merciless adversary McCabe (Sterling Hayden) in a race to complete the first rail right-of-way passage through the Rocky Mountains. Duped by McCabe into believing he's killed his own friend, Vesser quits his job and the race, but when he sees that McCabe's people are using sabotage and violence to get ahead, he steps back into the fray.