Alaska Lifeboat
Alaska Lifeboat

Alaska Lifeboat

November 16, 1956 | 21 min

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.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Ralph Sarlan

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