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
Beryl Marsden single "Too Late" in 2008. Some of her 1960s recordings have also been reissued on compilations. On 10 and 11 June 2013, a musical, "One Dream: The Beryl Marsden Story" was staged at the Cavern Club, only the second time that a theatrical show had been performed at the club. The musical ran for two nights, with Marsden performing at the end of the show. In 2014, she was portrayed by Gemma Sutton in "Cilla", a three-part television drama series about Cilla Black. Beryl Marsden Beryl Marsden (born 10 June 1947) is a British R&B and pop singer, who first