Alaska Lifeboat

Name: Alaska Lifeboat
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1956-11-16
Duration: 21 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Ralph Sarlan

Alaska Lifeboat (1956)

0:21 (21 min)

Documentary

United States

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Production

RKO Radio Pictures

Release date

16 November 1956

Director

Herbert Morgan

Scenario

Herbert Morgan

Producer

Herbert Morgan

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Actors

Ralph Sarlan

themself (Boy with Hurt Foot, uncredited)

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Short 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.