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Captain Eddie

7.219451h 48mNRMovieDrama

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.

DirectorLloyd Bacon
WriterJohn Tucker Battle
ProducerWinfield R. Sheehan

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Cast · Directed by Lloyd Bacon

FMFred MacMurray
Fred MacMurray
Eddie Rickenbacker
LBLynn Bari
Lynn Bari
Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
CBCharles Bickford
Charles Bickford
William Rickenbacker
TMThomas Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell
Ike Howard
LNLloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan
Lt. Jim Whitaker
JGJames Gleason
James Gleason
Tom Clark
SBSpring Byington
Spring Byington
Mrs. Frost
MPMary Philips
Mary Philips
Elsie Rickenbacker
DHDarryl Hickman
Darryl Hickman
Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy
DHDwayne Hickman
Dwayne Hickman
Louis Rickenbacker
RCRichard Conte
Richard Conte
Pvt. John Bartek
SRStanley Ridges
Stanley Ridges
Col. Hans Adamson

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Captain Eddie hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around August 6, 1945. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.

Is Captain Eddie based on a true story?

Yes — Captain Eddie is based on true events, dramatising real people and events (some details may be fictionalised for the screen).