Jean Martinelli was the star of an Alfred Hitchcock film set in what resort location?
Jean Martinelli Jean Martinelli (1910–1983) was a French actor who appeared in over 50 French films between 1933 and 1983, mostly in supporting roles. One of his few international films was Alfred Hitchcock's classic film "To Catch a Thief" (1955), where he played the role of a one-legged waiter. Martinelli also worked in television and theatre.
The Gold Rimmed Glasses Gli occhiali d'oro (internationally released as The Gold Rimmed Glasses) is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Giuliano Montaldo, starring Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett and Valeria Golino. Set in Ferrara and in a nearby seaside resort in 1938, the plot follows a Jewish student and a homosexual doctor who suffer persecution in Fascist Italy. The film is an adaptation of Giorgio Bassani's novel "The Gold Rimmed Spectacles" ("Gli occhiali d'oro").