by Eleanor Mannikka
synopsis
Starring two well-known Mexican actors, the comic Clavillazo and Pulgarcito ("Tom Thumb"), this standard drama about an adoptive father-son relationship features good acting and directing (the latter by René Cardona). When the son of a decent family is bereft of his father he happens to make the acquaintance of a simple street vendor who sells balloons for a living. The vendor has no son of his own, and the son is without a father, and so the two quickly take to each other. Their relationship then becomes the focus of the rest of the tale.
