
Captain Eddie
""Rick" is on the Screen ! The Gripping . . . Exciting Story of America's First Ace of Aces !"
Synopsis
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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