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Best movie ever!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Taking over the role of Thomas Alva Edison from his "Boy's Town" co-star Mickey Rooney in this follow-up to "Young Tom Edison", Spencer Tracy performed a George Arliss and Paul Muni like miracle of acting, turning into the famous inventor before your very eyes. This film (which can be seen without having seen its predecessor) deals with his arrival in New York City and his series of inventions from a recording device to the electric light, and a six month contract to get it up and running in New York or forever be shamed in scientific circles. Two character actors who supported Don Ameche's Alexander Graham Bell the previous year, are present. Charles Coburn plays the jovial General Powell who is Edison's biggest champion, while Gene Lockhart returns to his ruthless fool characterization as he becomes desperate to stop Edison from reaching his goal because of his financial involvement in the gaslights which previously (and dimly) lit up the streets.The film starts in 1929 when the aged Edison is being honored at the Jubilee of light, flashes back 60 years (although Tracy never appears to look to be in his early 20's), examines his courtship of young Rita Johnson (introduced thanks to a broken umbrella), his support by Coburn after fixing a broken stock market ticker tape machine, and eventual battle with the scheming Lockhart. Rather than expand into a third Edison tale, this film simply lists his other inventions after the electric light, which includes a reminder that he also had a hand in creating the kinescope, something we now know as motion pictures. A full length version of that discovery and the patent wars (which resulted in lawsuits by the real Edison himself) would have made an intriguing completion to the tale, but alas never came to fruition.This doesn't have the folksy atmosphere of "Young Tom Edison" (which is more family oriented in its narrative) yet is scientifically more important. Tracy really seems to become Edison, while Coburn, Lockhart and Grant Mitchell (as Lockhart's attorney) are excellent. The amount of comedy is somewhat limited, with a seemingly unnecessary inclusion of a young Tom Edison like inventor thrown in for a few later scenes. That doesn't diminish the value of this history lesson, given the MGM gloss and an important addition to the gallery of America's rise as an innovator in technology still in use today.

Spencer Tracy is "Edison, the Man" in this 1940 film also starring Gene Lockhart, Felix Bressart, Gene Reynolds and Charles Coburn. The Clarence Brown-directed film begins with Edison as an old man looking back on his life as he's talking to kids from a school newspaper.Edison had a brilliant mind and invented many things, including conducting something like 2,000 experiments before he found a way to get a light bulb to work. One of his inventions was the "talking machine," and if you go on wikipedia.com, you can actually hear Edison speaking into it. This is my favorite part of the film - I worked on a dictaphone machine back in the '70s that looked like a smaller version of what Edison invents in the movie. The transcriber placed a blue belt with grids in it on a roller, and, as the belt moved, you transcribed. It seems so archaic 30 years later.The film is fairly inaccurate concerning Edison's private life and other details, but hopefully, it's interesting enough that it will inspire the viewer to read all about this remarkable man, well played by Spencer Tracy. The supporting cast is also excellent.Highly entertaining and well worth seeing.

Spencer Tracy rarely played real people. He played a character based on Arnold Rothstein in an early film for Fox, and Henry Morton Stanley in STANLEY AND LIVINGSTON, and Rogers of Rogers' Rangers in NORTHWEST PASSAGE, and Clarence Darrow (Henry Drummond) in INHERIT THE WIND, and the Captain of the Mayflower in PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE. It seems like a large number of films, but it is really less than three percent of his movies. He also appeared in this film as the great inventor (over 1,000 patents) Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931). In 1940 Edison was a national hero. Nobody was quite like him, although Alexander Graham Bell (soon to be subject of a film starring Don Ameche) was a figure of great interest too. So was Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, and Eli Whitney, inventor of the Cotton Gin. However no films were made about them. There was a film with Fred MacMurray and Alice Faye about Robert Fulton and his steamboat, but none about the Wright brothers.Because of the period of history it was made in, film biography rarely was totally dispassionate. All Americans heroes were flawless, so all questions about Edison's stealing credit from assistants or other inventors was pushed aside (his involvement in the patent battles about the telephone is not mentioned). Nor were his flop inventions: pre-fabricated houses made of cement (actually a good idea, but ahead of it's time), the attempt to be the biggest gold ore refiner in the East (using huge machines to grind the ore out of rocks), the electric car motor. His bigoted feelings towards foreigners (Jews, rival inventors like Nicola Tesla) were not mentioned, nor was his rejection of the offer of a joint 1911 Nobel Prize for Physics (for the accidental discovery of the Edison Affect of carbonization in electricity) because he had to have it with Tesla for discovering alternating current. None of this is mentioned...only the string of great inventions he had a major hand in from 1868 to 1894. As a surface study of his career it is passable, and Tracy and the cast (in particular Gene Lockhart as his critic and nemesis Taggart) are splendid. You'll be entertained, but read A STREAK OF LUCK by Robert Conot for the true story.

Very well made film, effortlessly acted out by, who else but, Spencer Tracy. The movie traces the dedication of Edison and his team and their sometimes frustrating situations which they conquer eventually to succeed. A must for anyone who is inspired by the work of great people.