Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
27 audience votes
Key crew
- Clarence BrownDirector
- Talbot JenningsScreenplay
- Bradbury FooteScreenplay
Cast
- 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
Stills
Themes
historical figurelight bulb