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There are three posters for Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in the exhibition.
In this film, directed by Billy Wilder, a bored Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens) meets Madame Petrova (Tamara Toumanova), a famous ballerina who tries to seduce him in the hopes that their child will have her body and his brains. He manages to extract himself from her grasp using Dr Watson (Colin Blakely) as a decoy. Then Sherlock and the doctor head for Loch Ness in search of the missing husband of Gabrielle Valladon (Genevieve Page). While there, they meet Sherlock's brother, Mycroft (Christopher Lee), who aids them in solving the mystery.
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