At the end there is a long climactic scene with two more deaths by snake bite. The Sheriff, a rich ranch owner named Clinton, a saloon girl named Kate, and Fields are all together in Clinton's ranch house. Sheriff Burton and Kate hold guns on Fields and Clinton. Then Burton puts a bag on a table where the two men are sitting and opens it to free two snakes. He tells the two men that the first one to make a noise will die, and the second one will be shot. (Snakes can't hear and they don't move that quickly and they are more likely to try to get away.) Clinton is the first to move and a snake suddenly flies into his neck, biting and killing him. Then the other three people duck and hide from the snakes to avoid getting bitten. We see shots of each of their faces intercut with shots of the snakes until one of the snakes flies into Kate's neck, killing her. Fields and Burton somehow avoid the lightning-fast deadly flying snakes and finish their business outside with pistols.

The movie perpetuates the absurd idea that's all too common in movies that you can simply release deadly snakes in the vicinity of someone you want dead, and the snakes will kill them. In reality, the snakes will most likely head in the opposite direction and disappear.

We see two kinds of real live snakes in the movie, and I'm pretty sure they only used the same two snakes over and over. The striped snake looks like a Four-lined Snake, found in southern Italy where the movie was made. The other snake is ready to shed its skin which makes it hard to identify. It appears to be some kind of boa or a python. The snakes we see attacking and biting people and being milked by Norton are all snake props - really bad ones. They look like painted sock puppets that someone is holding up off camera. I think they're supposed to be rattlesnakes, since the movie is set in the North American west where rattlesnakes are common, but they don't.