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

Director
Hy Averback

Main cast
Doris Day; Terry-Thomas; Patrick O'Neal; Lola Albright; Steve Allen

Genres
Comedy

Description
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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