Edison, the Man

Name: Edison, the Man
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1940
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 6.815

1940 · 107 min

History · Drama

★ 6.8

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Trailer

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.

Crew

Director Clarence Brown
Screenplay Talbot Jennings
Screenplay Bradbury Foote

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
Felix Bressart
Michael Simon
Peter Godfrey
Ashton
Guy D'Ennery
Lundstrom
Byron Foulger
Edwin Hall
Milton Parsons
'Acid' Graham
Arthur Aylesworth
Bigelow

Crew

Director — Clarence Brown
Screenplay — Talbot Jennings
Screenplay — Bradbury Foote

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