The Upturned Glass.

A melodrama in which a surgeon commits murder to avenge the death of the woman he loved. An English country house provides the setting.

The film depicts Michael's story in flashbacks narrated by the lecturer. The lecturer is telling his own story and that he and Michael are one and the same. Michael is a skilled London surgeon and brain specialist with an established Harley Street practice. He is unhappily married and separated from his wife, has no close friends, and spends most of his time working. He romances Kate Howard, who proves to be a greedy, shallow woman with debt problems and a grudge against her brother and Emma because her brother had inherited most of her parents' estate. Michael tries to break up with her without telling her what he knows,