Handmade Films - Definition and Overview

Handmade Films was a film production company set up by the Beatle George Harrison and his business partner Denis O'Brian in 1979, originally to finance the Monty Python film Life of Brian after the original financers pulled out.

Major films produced by the company include:

• The Long Good Friday (1980)
• Time Bandits (1981)
• Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)
• Mona Lisa (1986)
• Withnail and I (1987)
• How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)