Edison, the Man

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.

• Talbot JenningsScreenplay
• Bradbury FooteScreenplay
• Clarence BrownDirector

• Spencer TracyThomas A. Edison
• Charles CoburnGeneral Powell
• Lynne OvermanBunt Cavatt
• Rita JohnsonMary Stilwell
• Gene LockhartMr. Taggart
• Henry TraversBen Els
• Felix BressartMichael Simon
• Peter GodfreyAshton
• Guy D'EnneryLundstrom
• Byron FoulgerEdwin Hall
• Milton Parsons'Acid' Graham
• Arthur AylesworthBigelow