Movie · Edison Collection

Edison, the Man (1940)

• NR
• May 10, 1940
• 1h 47m

• History
• Drama

“Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!”

Overview

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.

Director

Clarence Brown

Writers

Talbot Jennings, Bradbury Foote

Starring

Spencer Tracy, Charles Coburn, Lynne Overman