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Ferry Cross The Mersey (1965) film restoration


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mersy, mersybeat, cavern.cavern club, beatles, gerry marsden, gerry and the pacemakers, cilla black, river mersey, a hard day's night, ferry cross the mersey, george martin, brian epstein, british invation, liverpool, fourmost, earl royce, the blackwells
In honor of the late Gerry Marsden, I am proud to present my restoration of the extremely rare British Invasion film "Ferry Cross The Mersey" starring Merseybeat superstars, Gerry and The Pacemakers.

The film has been run through neural networks to increase it's quality and fidelity, the black levels and contrast have all been improved, the crisp black and white photography has been restored to remove any introduced color artifacts, and the texture of the film and it's grain has been brought out. As for the audio, I did all I could to improve the quality of the film's dialogue, but for all the musical performances, high quality recordings from the film's remastered soundtrack have been edited back into the film.

Never released on home video, this film fell into obscurity pretty much right after it's theatrical run. This film forms a kind of British Invasion trilogy along with The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" and The Dave Clark Five's starring vehicle, "Catch Us If You Can". And while "A Hard Day's Night" has gone on to be a celebrated classic, and "Catch Us If You Can" is now being rediscovered as a piece of quality satire, "Ferry Cross The Mersey" has received no such treatment. As it stands "Ferry Cross The Mersey" is a delightful, little film that's like a hybrid of the Beatlesque pop film, the British social-realist drama, and the older Tommy Steele musicals. There are some real kitchen sink touches throughout the film, and a lot of what amounts to documentary footage of the original Cavern Club and the Lacarno, showing great performances by local Liverpool groups, all managed by Brian Epstien coincidently, The Fourmost, The Blackwells, Cilla Black, and Earl Royce and the Olympics.

If you love 1960's British pop music, do yourself a favor and give this film a try.
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Reviewer: Rumwold Leigh - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - August 4, 2023
Subject: Nice to see it back
Not correct to say this drifted into obscurity just after being released. It was shown on Saturday morning TV in the Midlands for a number of years, which is where I remember it from - this was my only connection to Gerry Marsden the pop star, rather than the children's entertainer he had then become.

Reviewer: Jill Milnes - favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - February 28, 2023
Subject: Waited a lifetime to see this
Thank you. So many familiar sights...Woodside, the tunnel, Speke Hall... Heard of this film since I was a little girl and I'm overjoyed to get to see it.
Reviewer: KatieJ836 - favoritefavoritefavorite - October 27, 2022
Subject: Memories of the 60's
Love it for its predictable script, predictable screaming teenagers and all that goes with it. The only really vile downside is that repellent disgusting dj whose name doesn't deserve mentioning. 3 stars because of it as it makes my skin crawl. Not their fault I know but I shuddered when it came on stage.

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