HandMade Films, the independent movie production company founded by late Beatles guitarist George Harrison, “saved” the British film industry.
That was how two national newspapers described HandMade’s colourful existence between 1978 and 1991, in stories about new documentary An Accidental Studio. It is a wild exaggeration. While the company produced original and subversive gems including The Long Good Friday and Withnail & I, only one of their movies is in the top 10 highest-grossing British films of the 1980s.