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Captain Eddie is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lloyd Bacon released in USA on 18 june 1945 with Fred MacMurray
Captain Eddie (1945)
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Add to a movie listCaptain 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.
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In World War II, famed World War I pilot Eddie Rickenbacker (Fred MacMurray), while serving as an United States Army Air Forces officer, is assigned to tour South Pacific bases. On October 21, 1942, his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress has to ditch at sea, forcing Rickenbacker, pilot Lt. James Whittaker (Lloyd Nolan), co-pilot Capt. Bill Cherry Richard Crane and other crew members to survive for 19 days on a tiny rubber raft.Actors
Fred MacMurray
(Eddie Rickenbacker)
Lynn Bari
(Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker)
Charles Bickford
(William Rickenbacker)
Darryl Hickman
(Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy)
Thomas Mitchell
(Ike Howard)
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