Young Tom Edison (1940)
3.5 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 26min
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- Synopsis:
The film follows the imaginative boy Tom (Mickey Rooney) as he continually gets into mischief and causes accidents locally with his chemical experiments. The townspeople regard him as a troublemaker. As the Civil War breaks out, Tom starts a business enterprise peddling food and snacks on board trains, and later composing and handing out news sheets to passengers. In a stroke of inspiration, Tom at night cleverly focuses light from multiple lamps onto a large mirror, enabling a surgeon to successfully operate on his mother (Fay Bainter). The story ends with Tom desperately signaling in Morse Code with a train whistle, alerting the engineer of another train filled with passengers to stop before it plunges into a river. These two acts finally vindicate Tom who is now a hero. - Actors:
- Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Virginia Weidler, Eugene Pallette, Victor Kilian, Bobby Jordan, J.M. Kerrigan, Lloyd Corrigan, John Kellogg, Clem Bevans, Eily Malyon, Harry Shannon, Ernie Adams, Maude Allen, Jessie Arnold, Gertrude Astor, Polly Bailey, Sherwood Bailey, Jack Baxley
- Directors:
- Norman Taurog
- Producers:
- John W. Considine Jr
- Narrated By:
- Frank Whitbeck
- Writers:
- Bradbury Foote, Dore Schary, Hugo Butler, H. Alan Dunn
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
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