Alaska Lifeboat

Alaska Lifeboat

6.0IMDb Score
Released:1956-11-16
Duration:21 min
Director:Herbert Morgan
Actors:Ralph Sarlan
Production:RKO Radio Pictures

Overview:

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.

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