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#8,417 All-time worldwide
#20 1968 releases

Movie profile

Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

1968 · 89 min · Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.0M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$3.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$894,656

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #8,417 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1968 releases #20 Release-year chart position of 58 titles Ranked against movies released in 1968. Studio / company #86 Metro Goldwyn Mayer of 281 titles Position inside the mapped Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie set. Primary genre #3,323 Comedy of 4,945 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) perform at the box office?

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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $8.0M. In this database it currently ranks #8,417 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #20 among 1968 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,988,000
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 19, 1968
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyMetro Goldwyn Mayer Release year chart1968 box office Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1968, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.0M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,417 all-time in the current chart set and #20 among 1968 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.