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.

"Spencer Tracy's greatest performance!"

Credits

Clarence BrownDirector

Spencer TracyThomas A. Edison

Charles CoburnGeneral Powell

Lynne OvermanBunt Cavatt

Rita JohnsonMary Stilwell