Operation Heartbeat (1969)
A surgeon on trial for murder: accused of taking one life...to save another.
Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and friend. Operation Heartbeat was the pilot movie for the TV series Medical Center.
- Date of release
- 1969-04-17
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Boris Sagal
Casting
- Richard Bradford — Dr. Joseph Gannon
- Edward G. Robinson — Dr. Lee Forestman
- James Daly — Dr. Paul Lochner
- Kim Stanley — Joanna Hanson
- Maurice Evans — Dr. Easler
- Kevin McCarthy — Clifford Coswell
- J.D. Cannon — Thomas Jarris
- William Windom — Raymond Hanson
- Shelley Fabares — 'Mike' Carter
- James Shigeta — Chief Resident
- William Marshall — Dr. Harold Tawn
- Audrey Totter — Eve Wilcox
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