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Captain Eddie

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Captain Eddie

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

7.0

1h 48m

1945

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

Synopsis

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.

Director

Lloyd Bacon

Drama

biographyaviator

Cast & Crew

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

as Eddie Rickenbacker

Lynn Bari

Lynn Bari

as Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker

Charles Bickford

Charles Bickford

as William Rickenbacker

Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell

as Ike Howard

Lloyd Nolan

Lloyd Nolan

as Lt. Jim Whitaker

James Gleason

James Gleason

as Tom Clark

Spring Byington

Spring Byington

as Mrs. Frost

Mary Philips

Mary Philips

as Elsie Rickenbacker

Darryl Hickman

Darryl Hickman

as Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy

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