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Alaska Lifeboat

Alaska Lifeboat

★ 6.0/10•1956•21m•NR•Documentary
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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.

Herbert Morgan · Director

Herbert Morgan · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime21m
LanguageEN
Release DateNov 16, 1956

Actors

Ralph Sarlan

Self - Boy with Hurt Foot (uncredited)

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