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Snakes in Movies   Viva Maria! (1965)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   The great French director Louis Malle made this goofy comedy in Mexico which has a brief snake cameo. Brigitte Bardot is best reason to watch it. Bardot plays Maria, the daughter of an Irish bomb-maker who takes her around the world to set off bombs to kill English people. They are in Central America in 1907 when he is shot by English soldiers and signals her to blow up a bridge while he's still on it. She is disguised as a boy, running away from the explosion, when she sees a Boa Constrictor on a tree that frightens her. More frightening than the snake for me was wondering if I had to see the French sex goddess dressed as a boy for the whole movie, but that is rectified later in the movie when she goes on to join Maria II's (Jeanne Moreau) traveling circus act as a singer and dancer. When Bardot Maria's costume rips, she takes it off, and the crowd goes wild. The two Marias then become big stars by turning the act into a strip tease. Given the complicated turn-of-the-century women's undergarment situation, they finish the strip tease wearing more clothing than most women today wear when they're fully dressed. After their circus wagons stumble into a revolution trying to oust a dictator, Maria and Maria become the leaders of the revolution and Bardot's weapons expertise and bomb-making skills once again come in handy, especially her skill with a giant machine gun.