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Ferry Cross the Mersey (1964)
Silly plot but such fun!
I love this movie. Gerry and the boys are adorable, the music is good, but the best part is a vintage look at Liverpool. Many scenes of the city, the famous Art College, the Cavern, and in the Big Contest scene, a real fight broke out and was caught on film. Fred Marsden (Gerry's brother and the drummer) is the funniest one, with silly looks and his fumbling about. Chad gets many lines, and he later said they had trouble filming the scenes on their Lambretta scooters because he kept falling off of his! Plus they fix him up like a certain dictator in art class. Poor Leslie Maguire, pianist, doesn't get as many lines. Look for incontinuities. Gerry's girlfriend's hairdo changes a few times in the art school scene. If it had been filmed in color it would have rated a 10!!
Congorilla (1932)
Only good for old film scenes
With these people faking so many shots, using old footage, and gassing animals to get them out, not to mention that some of the scenes were filmed on a created set with actors, what's to believe? Old film of countries is nice, but the animal abuse and degradation of natives is painful to watch in these films. I know, racism is OK in these old films, but there is more to that to make this couple lose credibility. Portrayed as fliers, they never flew their planes, Martin Johnson was an ex-vaudevillian, used friends like Jack London for financial gain while stiffing them of royalties, denying his wife's apparent depression, using her as a cute prop, all this makes these films unbearable. They were by no means the first to travel to these lands, or the first to write about them. He was OK as a filmmaker and photographer, but that's about it.