About the film

Alaska Lifeboat

1956621 min
Documentary
This "Theater of Life" series short focuses on a medical services ship that stops in the native village of Haines, Alaska. The natives are depicted as superstitious of modern medicine. In the end, however, youngster Ralph Sarlan (the only person identified by the narrator) is taken by airplane to get corrective surgery on his deformed foot.
Director
Herbert Morgan
Released
Nov 16, 1956
Country
United States of America
Production
RKO Radio Pictures

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