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Snakes in Movies   The Tomb of Love (The Indian Tomb) (1959)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   Fritz Lang is one of the greatest film directors ever, but maybe not so much in this, his penultimate film. This stars Debra Paget as Seetha, a temple dancer accused of offending a goddess. A priest tells her she has to dance for the goddess to gain her forgiveness. When a fake puppet cobra rises from the palm of a statue of the goddess and crawls forward, pulled by black strings the filmmakers didn't even try to hide, Seetha's eyes bug out and her hands start pretending to be snake heads. Two green rings on each of her hands look like snake eyes. The snake hands crawl right out of her dress until she tears it off to show that she's wearing nothing but some strategically-placed pieces of tin foil. (That's some very nice left-overs.) She leaps and rolls around in front of the snake, which is standing at attention, like most of us guys. (Maybe this was one of Fritz Lang's best films after all.) Unfortunately, the snake wasn't very impressed and gives a thumbs down review of her dance by bearing its fangs at her, threatening to bite. Seeing the snake's disapproval she panics and a man in a gold robe and a turban runs over and crushes the snake with a metal fire holder. Since the snake wasn't impressed, that means neither was the goddess, so the priest says Seetha must die. You can watch this milestone in the history of modern dance for yourself. It's all over YouTube.