Ferry Cross the Mersey (film) Ferry Cross the Mersey (film) Ferry Cross the Mersey is a 1965 musical film featuring Gerry and the Pacemakers. The film, directed by Jeremy Summers, was the first to be shot on location in Liverpool after the city's emergence into the music mainstream (which had previously seen only Frankie Vaughan, Russ Hamilton, Billy Fury and Lita Roza as stars). For authenticity, many scenes were shot in clubs near the home of Gerry and the Pacemakers' frontman Gerry Marsden. A scene on a ferry (the "Mountwood") on the River Mersey showed the docks as a backdrop. Marsden wrote nine new songs
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