Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers sabotages the entire operation in the hopes that they can get their tracks laid first and get the money from the railroad.
Edmond O'Brien
as Jim Vesser
Sterling Hayden
as McCabe
Dean Jagger
as General William J. Palmer
Kasey Rogers
as Linda Nelson
Lyle Bettger
as Johnny Buff
J. Carrol Naish
as Gil Harkness
Zasu Pitts
as Jane Dwyer
Tom Powers
as Sloan
Robert Barrat
as Charlie Haskins
Paul Fix
as Engineer Moynihan
Don Haggerty
as Bob Nelson
James Burke
as Sheriff Ed Johnson
