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Key Details

Release StatusReleased
Release Date1940-05-10
Languageen
Runtime1h 47m
Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

6.8(27)
•1940•1h 47m

Edison, the Man

"Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!"

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.

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Edison Collection

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