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Operation Heartbeat (1969)
Directed by Boris Sagal
“A surgeon on trial for murder: accused of taking one life...to save another.”
Drama, TV Movie · 1h 38m
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.
Cast
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
Crew
- Director
- Boris Sagal
- Writer
- Al C. Ward
- Director of Photography
- Joseph LaShelle
- Editor
- Henry Batista
- Producer
- Frank Glicksman
Details
- Release date
- 1969-04-17
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- MGM Television