Cinema of the United Kingdom as Goldcrest, HandMade Films and Merchant Ivory Productions. Handmade Films, which was partly owned by George Harrison, was originally formed to take over the production of "Monty Python's Life of Brian", after EMI's Bernard Delfont (Lew Grade's brother) had pulled out. Handmade also bought and released the gangster drama "The Long Good Friday" (1980), produced by a Lew Grade subsidiary, after its original backers became cautious. Members of the Python team were involved in other comedies during the decade, including Terry Gilliam's fantasy films "Time Bandits" (1981) and "Brazil" (1985), and John Cleese's hit "A Fish Called Wanda" (1988), while
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