Alaska Lifeboat

Alaska Lifeboat

1956 21 min ⭐ 6.0 Documentary

Alaska Lifeboat is one of the most talked-about Documentary movies released in 1956, attracting audiences with its cinematic storytelling and memorable performances.

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.

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