Movie

Edison, the Man

★ 6.8/10 · 27 votes 1940 1h 47m Released

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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.

Cast

Spencer Tracy Thomas A. Edison Charles Coburn General Powell Lynne Overman Bunt Cavatt Rita Johnson Mary Stilwell Gene Lockhart Mr. Taggart Henry Travers Ben Els