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Edison, the Man

Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!

6.829 votes on TMDB1940Movie1h 47m

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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