Stagecoach (1939) John Ford and his movie Injuns on the Monument Valley set of his ageless Stagecoach. The extras were played by real Navajos who were paid $5 a day – $8 if they were filmed on horseback – to give hair-raising chase to John Wayne and co. across a dried-out lake in the film’s spectacular set-piece. Even this early blueprint for Tony Scott’s entire career didn’t particularly impress the film’s backers, with Westerns yet to reignite at the box office. "It’s just a B picture," grumbled one of RKO’s producers. Some B picture.