Drama · United States of America · 1945 · 1h 48m

Captain Eddie

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Director
Lloyd Bacon
Cast
Fred MacMurray as Eddie Rickenbacker Lynn Bari as Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker Charles Bickford as William Rickenbacker Thomas Mitchell as Ike Howard Lloyd Nolan as Lt. Jim Whitaker James Gleason as Tom Clark
Crew
Joseph MacDonald — Director of Photography John Tucker Battle — Screenplay Winfield R. Sheehan — Producer
Tagline

"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.

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Key Collaborators
Lloyd Bacon Director Joseph MacDonald Director of Photography John Tucker Battle Screenplay Winfield R. Sheehan Producer
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