Editing HandMade Films (section)

=== First film and growth of productions ===
The first film distributed by HandMade Films was ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'' (1980), and the first it produced was ''[[Time Bandits]]'' (1981), a co-scripted project by [[Monty Python]]{{'}}s [[Terry Gilliam]] and [[Michael Palin]].{{sfn|Harry|2003|p=212}} The film featured a new song by Harrison, "[[Dream Away (George Harrison song)|Dream Away]]", in the closing credits.{{sfn|Inglis|2010|p=83}} ''Time Bandits'' became one of HandMade's most successful and acclaimed efforts; with a budget of $5 million, it earned $35 million in the US within ten weeks of its release.{{sfn|Inglis|2010|p=83}}

Harrison served as [[Film producer|executive producer]] for 23 films with HandMade, including the Oscar-nominated ''[[Mona Lisa (film)|Mona Lisa]]'', ''[[Shanghai Surprise]]'' and ''[[Withnail and I]]''. He made several [[cameo appearance]]s in these films, including a role as a [[nightclub singer]] in ''Shanghai Surprise'',<ref>[https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2019/10/23/control-nathan-rabin-40-73-shanghai-surprise Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #73 Shanghai Surprise —— Nathan Rabin's Happy Place]</ref> for which he recorded five new songs.{{sfn|Leng|2006|p=244}} According to Ian Inglis, Harrison's "executive role in HandMade Films helped to sustain British cinema at a time of crisis, producing some of the country's most memorable movies of the 1980s."{{sfn|Inglis|2010|p=xvi}} In 1987, HandMade Films made an agreement with independent motion picture distributor [[Island Records|Island Pictures]] to distribute four films for limited theatrical release from 1987 to mid-1988: ''[[The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne]]'', ''[[Track 29]]'', ''[[The Raggedy Rawney]]'' and ''[[Bellman and True]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1987-04-22|title=Island Gets 4 Handmades|page=5|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>