Alaska Lifeboat

Alaska Lifeboat

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 16, 1956

Runtime

0h 21m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Alaska Lifeboat

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

Director

Herbert Morgan

Description

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.