A movie with a perplexing title, Exiled to Shanghai recounts how a newsreel reporter (Wallace Ford) gets involved with a contest winner (June Travis) and a company pushing television. There’s not a lot of substance here, but some use of real newsreel footage, and the action takes place entirely in the U.S. The leads are adequate, but the movie can’t quite overcome its misleading title.

  Mildly recommended. Otto judiciously thinks this movie is OK, but not great.

Movie 535 for 2021.