HandMade Films HandMade Films HandMade Films is a British film production and distribution company. Notable films from the studio include "Monty Python's Life of Brian", "Time Bandits" and "Withnail and I". HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle George Harrison and business partner Denis O'Brien in 1978 to finance the Monty Python film "Life of Brian". Harrison had first been introduced to O'Brien by actor Peter Sellers in 1973. Soon after, the two went into business together. When the original financiers of "Brian", EMI Films, pulled out of the project less than a week before filming was to commence, the creators had
Culture of the United Kingdom adaptations of Agatha Christie stories "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) and "Death on the Nile" (1978) were critically acclaimed. The film adaptation of the West End musical "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975) sees Tim Curry reprise his role as Dr Frank N Furter. Starring as James Bond in "Live and Let Die" (1973), Roger Moore would go on to play 007 seven times. In the mid-1970s, British comedy team Monty Python switched their attention to films, beginning with "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975), followed by "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979), the latter regularly voted the