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Perhaps a bit early in the revolution to be filled with heavy-duty propaganda, this routine drama by Cuban director Julio G. Espinosa was written by an Italian, Cesare Zavatini. The focus of attention is a very young man who runs away to join up with Castro's guerrilla forces in the mountains. The young fellow has a heightened imagination over the daring adventures that lie ahead -- and so he is let down when all he gets is drill practice, exercises, basic rations, and a lot of discipline. But the truth of army life might still stand him in good stead when his first skirmish looms on the horizon.