Jerrys (1974)

JERRYS DELI is a testament to a bygone era when shrieking lunatics could run successful even popular businesses Shot on filmstock leftover from television cameramen Tom Palazzolos portrait of Jerry Meyer offsets sequences of the tyrannical deli owner seen berating his employees and physically dragging customers to the counter with personal interviews in which a softspoken Meyer calmly describes his decorated military service in World War II his early stand on civil rights and this one time when he stabbed an employee in the arm Tom Fritsche