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
Matthew Marsden Matthew Marsden Matthew David Marsden (born 3 March 1973) is an English actor, producer, singer and model. He has appeared in films such as "Helen of Troy", "", "Tamara", "", "Rambo", "" and "Atlas Shrugged". Marsden was born on 3 March 1973 at Hallam Hospital in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England. He grew up on the Yew Tree Estate in Walsall. His father abandoned the family when Marsden was 10 years old, and his mother Ann then brought him and his sister Leanne up alone. He attended Manor High School in Wednesbury, before leaving to go to Dartmouth High School in