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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.
Acting
Edward G. Robinson dying grandly, Kim Stanley unhinged as the widow.
Production
That sterile 1969 hospital aesthetic—so much beige, so many ashtrays.

Director
Boris Sagal
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