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Edison, the Man

1940 · Clarence Brown · 107 min

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Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!

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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6.8/10Rating on TMDBFrom The Movie Database29 votesTMDB
Spencer TracyThomas A. EdisonCharles CoburnGeneral PowellLynne OvermanBunt CavattRita JohnsonMary StilwellGene LockhartMr. TaggartHenry TraversBen ElsFelix BressartMichael SimonPeter GodfreyAshtonGuy D'EnneryLundstromByron FoulgerEdwin HallMilton Parsons'Acid' GrahamArthur AylesworthBigelowGene ReynoldsJimmy PriceAddison RichardsMr. JohnsonGrant MitchellSnade

Cast

Spencer TracyThomas A. EdisonCharles CoburnGeneral PowellLynne OvermanBunt CavattRita JohnsonMary StilwellGene LockhartMr. TaggartHenry TraversBen ElsFelix BressartMichael SimonPeter GodfreyAshtonGuy D'EnneryLundstromByron FoulgerEdwin HallMilton Parsons'Acid' GrahamArthur AylesworthBigelowGene ReynoldsJimmy PriceAddison RichardsMr. JohnsonGrant MitchellSnade

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