Gerry and the Pacemakers another number one single in the UK. Marsden began writing most of their songs, including "I'm the One","It's Gonna Be All Right" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey", as well as their first and biggest US hit, "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying", which peaked at No.4. The band also starred in an early 1965 film, "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (sometimes referred to as "Gerry and the Pacemakers' version of "A Hard Day's Night""), for which Marsden wrote much of the soundtrack. The title song was revived in 1989 as a charity single for an appeal in response to the
Gerry Blattner Gerry Blattner Gerry Blattner was a British Film Producer who worked on many films produced by Warner Bros. in the UK. Gerry Blattner was a British film producer and Executive Producer, best known for producing the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated and Golden Globe winning feature film The Sundowners and co-producing the television adaptation of I, Claudius. Son of Ludwig Blattner (also a film producer, as well as an inventor), Gerry (real first name Gerard) followed his father into the film business. He was a production supervisor on My Lucky Star in 1933, which was filmed at the Blattner Studios in Elstree.