Alaska Lifeboat
MovieTitle | Alaska Lifeboat |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Nov 16, 1956 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Herbert Morgan |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | RKO Radio Pictures |
Run time | 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.