Santa Fe covers almost too much ground, literally and figuratively speaking. There are disgruntled former Confederate soldiers doing what they can to prevent their former enemy from building a railroad; a rail organization attempting to cross a Colorado pass before the competitor; Native Americans forced to come to grips with a modern world; and Randolph Scott romancing a war widow (the delectable Janis Carter), who at first sees him only as the enemy. Director Irving Pichel does not always have a firm grip on the would-be epic nature of this Western, and the writing is a bit muddled at times, with too much footage awarded to the antics of a couple of comedic train engineers. But Scott is as stalwart as ever as the Virginia gentleman building not only a railroad to Santa Fe, but also a new life.