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