Pie in the Sky makes you realise you don't need endless violence, drug related tragedies and serial killers to bring entertainment to your TV screen in the Crime genreFood connoisseur the obese Henry Crabbe is desperate to retire from the police force and open his own restaurant. He manages to open the Pie in the Sky restaurant with his wife Margaret but the manipulative Asssistandt Chief Constable Freddy Fisher uses a dubious piece of evidence to blackmail Crabbe and retain his excellent detective skills for his own glorification.
A lot of things were done right in this film. Decent production values, unobtrusive direction, a pretty good cast doing as good of a job as possible with the material.
"Pie In The Sky" is one of those great little programs that comes along now and then and which the British are so good at creating. It is well scripted and well acted and the cast contains two great character actors, Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed as (Inspector) Henry Crabbe and Margaret Crabbe.
Just finished watching the first four episodes of this police series via Netflix. And it's a pleasure to report that at least thus far, there have been no serial killers, blood-spattered bedrooms or lethal shoot-outs.
One of the less - likely television detectives of the 1990s is D.I Henry Crabbe(the late Mr Richard Griffiths - massively missed),awaiting a well -earned retirement in order to run a small restaurant with his wife(the sublime Miss Maggie Steed).
This is a delightful series regarding a policeman with aspirations to be a chef. That delight is primarily due to the performances of Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed.
Pie in the Sky (1935) * 1/2 (out of 4) Early film from Elia Kazan (and several other directors) is a spoof of religion that isn't funny, interesting or spiritual. The film tries to be better than it is by using various camera tricks but nothing really works here.
It would be quite better to criticize this short production in the context of the great depression, that had wide consequences in the thirties. Otherwise, it's really too easy to put some tags like 'ordinary' or 'mean'.
This film is interesting because it stars Elia Kazan. Kazan acted for some time before becoming a world-famous director of such films as "On the Waterfront".
