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Alaska Lifeboat

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Documentary

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.

Directed by Herbert Morgan

CAST

The people behind the story

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Ralph SarlanSelf - Boy with Hurt Foot (uncredited)

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