Der große Edison (1940)
16KDer große Edison: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn. 82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
“You donu0026#39;t see these kind of old-fashioned biographies anymore. There have been very few in the last 40 years. Yes, many of the classic biographies sugar-coated the stories, ignoring a personu0026#39;s negative traits, but todayu0026#39;s films mostly do the opposite, so itu0026#39;s nice to re-visit a movie in which an American hero is shown as just that. One gets tired of all the trashing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThomas Alva Edison certainly was a hero with his incredible inventions (i.e., the light bulb) which affected almost everyone on the planet to a significant degree. This movie goes to great lengths to show Edisonu0026#39;s persistence in reaching his goals while also highlighting the dedication of the men who worked for him.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSpencer Tracy as Edison, along with Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers and Felix Bressart make this a pretty solid movie. Itu0026#39;s not spectacular, probably not worth more than one look, maybe two, but itu0026#39;s a story that should be seen about an amazing period in history.”
