Between Night and Day

{{Short description|1932 British film by Albert de Courville and Fernando Gomis}}

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| director = Albert de Courville
Fernando Gomis

| producer = William Hutter

| based_on = {{based on| 77 Park Lane, a 1928 play |Walter Hackett }}

| writer = {{ubl|Reginald Berkeley|Michael Powell|José Luis Salado}}

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| distributor = United Artists

| released = {{Film date|1931}}

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = Spanish

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Between Night and Day (Spanish: Entre noche y día) is a 1931 British Spanish-language mystery film directed by Albert de Courville and Fernando Gomis.Low p. 383 It was made at Walton Studios as the Spanish-language version of the British mystery film 77 Park Lane, which was based on the 1928 play by Walter Hackett.{{Cite book |last=Gasca |first=Luis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_X9iAAAAMAAJ&q=Entre+noche+y+d%C3%ADa+%C2%A0Gabriel+Algara |title=Un siglo de cine español |date=1998 |publisher=Planeta |isbn=978-84-08-02309-8 |language=es}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-f8okkXllAC&q=Between+Night+and+Day+courville+hackett |title=The Saturday Review |date=1931 |publisher=Saturday Review, Limited |language=en}}

A separate French-language film 77 Rue Chalgrin (also directed by Courville) was also released.{{Cite book |last=Keller |first=Gary D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LwUAQAAIAAJ&q=Entre+noche+y+d%C3%ADa+%C2%A0Gabriel+Algara |title=A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film |date=1997 |publisher=Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe |isbn=978-0-927534-65-9 |language=en}} Such multiple-language versions were common during the early years of sound. The only actor appearing in the film with a career in the English-speaking world was Helena D'Algy.{{Cite book |last=Keller |first=Gary D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LwUAQAAIAAJ&q=D'Algy+Entre+noche+y+d%C3%ADa |title=A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film |date=1997 |publisher=Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe |isbn=978-0-927534-65-9 |language=en}} The Portuguese actress portrays the character played in the other versions by Betty Stockfold and Suzy Piorson. {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/NPSH19320522/page/n25/mode/2up?q=%22+Albert+de+Courville%22+%22d'Algy%22 |title=Hong Kong Sunday Herald 1932-05-22 |date=1932 |language=English}} It was one of her last-known roles before two Paramount British productions, respectively the same year and in 1933.{{Cite book |last=Keller |first=Gary D. |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalhand0000unse/mode/2up?q=%22Entre+noche+y+d%C3%ADa%22+%22Helena+d%27Algy%22 |title=A biographical handbook of Hispanics and United States film |date=1997 |publisher=Tempe, Ariz. : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-927534-56-7 |pages=38}} The rest of the cast included Alfonso de Granada, Gabriel Algara{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1I2_Et0dYAUC&q=Entre+noche+y+d%C3%ADa+%C2%A0Gabriel+Algara |title=El Cine |date=1932 |language=es}} and Jesús Castro Blanco.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztxMI5K6loEC&q=Entre+noche+y+d%C3%ADa+%C2%A0Gabriel+Algara |title=Mundo hispánico |date=1932 |language=es}}

Fernando Gomis Izquierdo was assistant director and "director of dialogues" for this version.http://archivosextremadura.gobex.es/WAREX/live/SistemaArchivistico/JuntaExtremaduraSA/ArchivosHistoricoProvincialesSA/ArchivosHistoricoProvincialesCC/Exposicionesvirtuales/cuentame/Quecomienceelespectaculo/23censura3yelcine3/isadlibroguion.pdf The film was a United Artists production.

The film was released in Spain on December 21, 1931{{Cite book |last=Gorritti |first=Violeta Núñez |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yj92SQfEhfsC&q=Entre+noche+y+d%C3%ADa+%C2%A0Gabriel+Algara |title=Cartelera cinematográfica peruana, 1930-1939 |date=1998 |publisher=Fondo de Desarrollo Editorial, Universidad de Lima |language=es}} and was shown at the Teatro Lloréns, in Seville, in January 1932, for example.{{Cite book |last=Madrid : El liberal |url=https://archive.org/details/APrensa01193201/mode/2up?q=Entre+noche+y+ |title=El Liberal |date=1932 |others=Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla}} It was theatrically distributed in Argentina in 1932.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/DiarioDemocraciaRosario19320815/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22Entre+noche+y+d%C3%ADa%22+%22Elena+d'Algy%22 |title=Diario Democracia 19320815 |date=1932}}