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Love and Poison

Directed by Giorgio Simonelli

Starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lois Maxwell

Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count. After many adventures, duels, settling of old scores, the officer and the countess get married. Former Queen Christina finds herself another captain of the guard.