The story begins as the friars of a poor war-ravaged monastery find an infant abandoned on their doorstep. The actors mouth one thing and the sound track disconcertingly says another. Marcelino is a surname that originated in Spain. The new local mayor, a blacksmith whom the monks would not let adopt Marcelino because of his coarse behaviour, uses the incident as an excuse to try to shut down the monastery. Black & white. Marcelino yearns for a mother as he observes the deep bond Eleuterio shares with his mother. "While in the 1955 version it was a Communist mayor who wanted to take the monastery away from the friars, in the new version it is a Mexican revolutionary," Garcia explains. Nevertheless the incredible elements in the film are at least partly redeemed by a number of touches that have the ring of reality and pathos--Marcelino, the orphan, brilliantly played by Pablito Calvo stealing bread from the kitchen, or playing with an imaginary friend, or the monks' touching ineptness with the baby. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/miracle-marcelino, "The Miracle of Marcelino StarringRafael Rivelles Antonio Vico Juan Calvo Jose Marco Davo Adriano Dominguez Directed byLadislao Vajda //