Alaska Lifeboat
Documentary
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.
Herbert Morgan Director
Herbert Morgan Writer
Top Billed Cast
Ralph Sarlan
Self - Boy with Hurt Foot (uncredited)
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