Captain Eddie (1945)
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.
- Released
- 1945-06-18
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Lloyd Bacon, John Tucker Battle
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 from 4 votes
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
- Spring Byington as Mrs. Frost
- Mary Philips as Elsie Rickenbacker
- Darryl Hickman as Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy
- Dwayne Hickman as Louis Rickenbacker
- Richard Conte as Pvt. John Bartek
- Stanley Ridges as Col. Hans Adamson
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