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
The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail Douglas Adams - the pair having recently collaborated on the fourth series of "Monty Python". The album is billed as the "Executive Version" as a joke on popular "special editions" of albums that contained extra tracks unavailable on earlier versions. Naturally, no other version of this album existed in the original release. On the A side of the original UK vinyl release, the engraved text by George Peckham around the label reads: "", while on the B side it reads: "". The album reached No.45 in the UK album charts. A CD reissue in 1997 contains extended versions of two