Review of Men in Exile

. . . for the proverbial "other shoe" to drop. About 24:26 into MEN IN EXILE, lead fugitive character "Jimmy Carmody" calls his African-Caribo Islander hotel work colleague "S*mbo," even though he knows perfectly well that the bellhop's name actually is "Ronald Witherspoon." Though Major League Baseball and most other American institutions were "Lily White" in 1937, the always eponymous Warner Bros. courageously took the lead with Pictures such as MEN IN EXILE to warn the USA's renegade "Jim Crow" South that Real Life was NOT a GONE WITH THE WIND racist fairy tale. Warner's prophetic prognosticators used this seemingly flimsy flick to warn the denizens of that deplorable citrus basket that they might not have many more "Tomorrows" to which they could look forward UNLESS they immediately mended their racist ways. Even though Jimmy apologizes to Ron until he's blue in the face, no-nonsense Caribo ruler "Col. Emanuel Gomez" soon has Jimmy plastered against a wall, facing his firing squad. Watch MEN IN EXILE for yourself to see how this cautionary tale turns out.