Filmed by the famed British actor and director Sir Tyrone Guthrie, this elegant version of the play adds a brilliant stroke - the actor wear masks, thus performing their role just as the Greeks did in Sophocles' time. This daring artistic move pays off in this final result. The story of Oedipus's gradual discovery of his primal crime - killing his father and marrying his mother - has influenced many of the great plays, films, and books of our time.