Characters & Themes
Alaska Lifeboat (1956) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1956 · 21 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Herbert Morgan
- Starring
- Ralph Sarlan
The short from the “Theater of Life” series follows a medical‑service ship that visits the remote village of Haines, Alaska. The locals are shown as wary of modern medicine. Ultimately, the narrator’s only identified person, a boy named Ralph Sarlan, is flown out for corrective surgery on his deformed foot.
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