Captain Eddie (1945)
1h 48m
Running Time
June 18, 1945Release Date
Captain Eddie (1945)
1h 48m
Running Time
June 18, 1945Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Fred MacMurray
Capt. Edward Rickenbacker
Lynn Bari
Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
Charles Bickford
William Rickenbacker
Lloyd Nolan
Lt. Jim Whitaker
Thomas Mitchell
Ike Howard
Lloyd Bacon
Director
James Gleason
Tom Clark
John Tucker Battle
Writer
Spring Byington
Mrs. Frost
Mary Philips
Elsie Rickenbacker
Jerome Cady
Writer
Winfield R. Sheehan
Producer
Darryl Hickman
Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy
Dwayne Hickman
Louis Rickenbacker
Cyril J. Mockridge
Composer
Richard Conte
Pvt. John Bartek
Joseph MacDonald
Cinematographer
Stanley Ridges
Col. Hans Adamson
Dorothy Adams
Nurse
Mary Gordon
Mrs. Westrom
Virginia Brissac
Flo Clark
Charles Russell
Sgt. Jim Reynolds
Clem Bevans
Jabez
Grady Sutton
Lester Thomas
Chick Chandler
Richard Lacey
Nancy June Robinson
Mary Rickenbacker
Winifred Glyn
Emma Rickenbacker
Gregory Marshall
Dewey Rickenbacker
David Spencer
Albert Rickenbacker
Elvin Field
Bill Rickenbacker
George Mitchell
Lt. Johnny De Angelis
Boyd Davis
Mr. Frost
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Captain Eddie is a 1945 American drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, based on Seven Were Saved by "Eddie" Rickenbacker and Lt. James Whittaker's We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing. The film stars Fred MacMurray, Lynn Bari and Charles Bickford. Captain Eddie is a "biopic" of Rickenbacker, from his experiences as a flying ace during World War I to his later involvement as a pioneering figure in civil aviation, and his iconic status as a business leader who was often at odds with labour unions and the government.