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Release Date:
19 June 1945 (USA) more
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"Rick" is on the Screen ! The Gripping . . . Exciting Story of America's First Ace of Aces !
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WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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A real bomb, dreadfully bad in every way possible. more (2 total)

Cast

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Fred MacMurray ... Captain Edward Rickenbacker
Lynn Bari ... Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
Charles Bickford ... William Rickenbacker
Thomas Mitchell ... Ike Howard
Lloyd Nolan ... Lt. Jim Whittaker
James Gleason ... Tom Clark
Mary Philips ... Elsie Rickenbacker
Darryl Hickman ... Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy
Spring Byington ... Mrs. Frost
Richard Conte ... Pvt. John Bartek
Charles Russell ... Sgt. Jim Reynolds
Richard Crane ... Capt. Bill Cherry
Stanley Ridges ... Col. Hans Adamson
Clem Bevans ... Jabez
Grady Sutton ... Lester Thomas
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107 min
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A real bomb, dreadfully bad in every way possible., 9 January 2001
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This is a travesty of a film. Purporting to be a biography of WWI flying ace, Eddie Rickenbacker, it is one of the most ill-conceived, poorly written, directed and acted films in movie history. We see only a three minute montage of Rickenbacker in WWI aerial action. The rest is couched in two tediously long flashbacks covering his childhood desire to fly and master machinery and his youthful romancing of his wife to be while he is involved in improving the automobile. The cast tries to behave as if they are about something important but the script is a mess, there is no point of view and everything in it is both fictionalized and unimaginative. Incredibly boring and worthy of being "lost." Inexplicably, the Academy nominated it for Special Effects which consist of one sequence less than a minute long in the beginning of a plane crash landing in the ocean and eventually sinking. Big deal- this film should have been honored with nothing and deserves its oblivion.

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