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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?(Movie, 1968)

1h 29min | Genre: Comedy
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?Rating: 2.8/5 (with 44 votes)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? is a 1968 American comedy film with Doris Day, directed by Hy Averback. Although it is set in New York City during the infamous Northeast blackout of 1965, in which 25 million people scattered throughout seven states in the Northeastern United States lost electricity for several hours, the screenplay by Everett Freeman and Karl Tunberg is based on the earlier 1956 French play Monsieur Masure by Claude Magnier. This was the penultimate film of Doris Day's long career, being released two months before her final screen appearance in 1968's With Six You Get Eggroll. ()
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About Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 8 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Dutch (NL), Russian (RU)
Status: Released
Release date US: 01/01/1968
Director: Hy Averback
Producer: Martin Melcher
Screenwriter: Claude Magnier
Film Editor: Rita Roland
Director of Photography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Composer: Dave Grusin
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Wo warst Du als das Licht ausging?"
Revenue: 7,988,000 USD

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