Captain Eddie

Captain Eddie

Captain Eddie

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Captain Eddie

""Rick" is on the Screen ! The Gripping . . . Exciting Story of America's First Ace of Aces !"

1945

1h 48m

7.2(4 votes)

Drama

Overview

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.

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20th Century Fox

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

Eddie Rickenbacker

Lynn Bari

Lynn Bari

Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker

Charles Bickford

Charles Bickford

William Rickenbacker

Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell

Ike Howard

Lloyd Nolan

Lloyd Nolan

Lt. Jim Whitaker

James Gleason

James Gleason

Tom Clark

Spring Byington

Spring Byington

Mrs. Frost

Mary Philips

Mary Philips

Elsie Rickenbacker

Darryl Hickman

Darryl Hickman

Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy

Dwayne Hickman

Dwayne Hickman

Louis Rickenbacker

Creative team

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Written by: John Tucker Battle
Produced by: Winfield R. Sheehan

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