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Captain Eddie

Release Year
1945
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Drama
Directed By
Lloyd Bacon
Captain Eddie

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.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Lynn Bari

Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker

Charles Bickford

William Rickenbacker

Lloyd Nolan

Lt. Jim Whitaker

James Gleason

Tom Clark

Spring Byington

Mrs. Frost

Mary Philips

Elsie Rickenbacker

Darryl Hickman

Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy

Dwayne Hickman

Louis Rickenbacker

Richard Conte

Pvt. John Bartek

Stanley Ridges

Col. Hans Adamson

Dorothy Adams

Nurse

Mary Gordon

Mrs. Westrom

Crew

Lloyd Bacon

Director

John Tucker Battle

Screenplay

Joseph MacDonald

Director of Photography

Winfield R. Sheehan

Producer

Sol Halperin

Special Effects

Cyril J. Mockridge

Music

Frances C. Richardson

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