The great Edison
| Movie | |
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| German title | The great Edison |
| Original title | Edison, the Man |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 107 minutes |
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| Director | Clarence Brown |
| script |
Bradbury Foote , Hugo Butler , Dore Schary |
| production | John W. Considine Jr. |
| music | Herbert Stothart |
| camera | Harold Rosson |
| cut | Fredrick Y. Smith |
| occupation | |
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The great Edison (Original title: Edison, the Man ) is the title of a US American film biography from 1940 with Spencer Tracy in the lead role.
action
During the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the bulb recalls Thomas Edison of his life. In 1869, when he was still a young telegraph operator , Edison went to New York and tried to find funding for his research. Finally there is a financier in General Powell, President of the Western Union . He manages to sell one of his inventions for $ 40,000. This success allowed him to marry his great love Mary Stillwell and to open his research laboratory in Menlo Park . In the next few years he succeeded in developing the phonograph . When one of his employees claims, contrary to the truth, that Edison succeeded in inventing the incandescent lamp, Edison is punished with contempt by the scientific community at the instigation of gas shareholder Taggart. After countless attempts, he finally succeeds in developing a practical incandescent lamp. Edison is supposed to light a street in New York electrically, but his adversary Taggart enforces a deadline of six months. A race against time begins for Edison.
background
At Edison, the Man is the sequel to the film , the young Edison with Mickey Rooney in the lead role.
Awards
The film was nominated for Best Original Story at the Academy Awards in 1941 .
Reviews
- Lexicon of International Films : "Second part of the entertaining and instructive biographical film about the great inventor Thomas Edison."
- Prisma : “Mickey Rooney was the 'young Tom Edison' in a convincing way, Spencer Tracy played no less convincing the 'great Edison'. (...) The critic of the New York Times wrote of the biographical film "The Great Edison": "Tracy fulfills his role with great humanity and vitality. He is thoughtful and quick-tempered, affectionate and always a little enigmatic. The film as a whole is as artfully and flawlessly made as Edison's inventions were. "The critic Frank Nugent , who believed that Tracy had a hard time against the" young Tom Edison "Mickey Rooney, was wrong."
Web links
- Edison, the Man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The great Edison at prisma.de