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Alaska Lifeboat

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Alaska Lifeboat — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • November 16, 1956
  • Runtime
  • 21 min
  • Genres
  • Documentary
  • Director
  • Herbert Morgan

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Alaska Lifeboat — Cast

Ralph Sarlan Self - Boy with Hurt Foot (uncredited)

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