Summary
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.
Details
Release Date: May 10, 1940
Runtime: 107 minutes
Genres: History, Drama
Original Language: EN
Rating: ⭐ 6.8/10 (23 votes)
Edison Collection
Young Tom Edison
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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.
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Thomas A. Edison
Charles Coburn
General Powell
Lynne Overman
Bunt Cavatt
Rita Johnson
Mary Stilwell
Gene Lockhart
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Henry Travers
Ben Els
Felix Bressart
Michael Simon
Guy D'Ennery
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Byron Foulger
Edwin Hall
Milton Parsons
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Jimmy Price
Addison Richards
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Grant Mitchell
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