Edison, the Man1940
Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!
Director
Screenplay
Bradbury Foote, Talbot Jennings
Actors
Spencer Tracy, Charles Coburn, Lynne Overman, Rita Johnson, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers, Felix Bressart, Gene Reynolds, Grant Mitchell, Paul Hurst, Erville Alderson, Billy Bletcher, Harry C. Bradley, James Conaty, Edgar Dearing, John Dilson, Donald Douglas, Hale Hamilton, Edward Hearn, Harold Minjir, Louis Natheaux, Emmett Vogan, Charles Waldron
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 107 Minutes
Genres
About the film
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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