Edison, the Man

Name: Edison, the Man
Director: Peter Godfrey
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1940-05-10
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Charles Coburn, Lynne Overman, Rita Johnson, Gene Lockhart

"Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!"

6.8(25 votes)

1h 47m

May 10, 1940

HistoryDrama

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.