The plot: a 19th century surgeon tries to operate on a homeless-looking man, but the patient dies on the table. The surgeon later notices that the man has been hurt to the point where he should have been dead months or years ago.

Somehow, this leads him to an island where he witnesses a dock worker being crushed by a falling crate and, while he appears dead on the spot, is carted away by his friends and later shows up still alive.

The surgeon later notices that there are no tombstones dated later than a few years ago – it’s as if after a certain date, people stopped dying.

He teams up with a girl and eventually finds out that she and her father are administering some kind of reanimation drug to the fatally injured and it cures them right back up, but the drug supply is running out due to some important ingredient.

Won’t spoil the ending.

This may be an episode of a series like The Twilight Zone, but a search for all the usual suspects turned up nothing. I must’ve seen this sometime between 1995 and 2003, since I remember watching it at my childhood home. The movie is was most definitively in color.