Operation Heartbeat

A surgeon on trial for murder: accused of taking one life...to save another.

1969·1h 38m·★ 8.0(1)

DramaTV Movie

Director Boris SagalWriter Al C. Ward

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.

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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

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