- Rufe Davis, Under Texas Skies, 1940. After eight serials with Hatton, The Three Mesquiteers had new Lullaby Jones – the comic Davis, who greatly resembled the second Lullaby, Max Terhune. Davis, Bob Steele and the invincible Robert Livingston stuck together for the next seven serials. Hatton (aka Comedy Relief; he’d been a 20s’ silent movie duo with Wallace Beery) had filled in between Lullabies as the baccy-chewing Rusty Joslin before a much longer saddle stint as Sandy Hopkins with The Rough Riders and about 40 Johnny Mack Brown oaters. B-expert Jerry Blake said Hatton had “a face like a cunning and disreputable turtle, a voice like a rusty gate.” Between 1909-1967, Hatton made 471 movies! (Only (?) surpassed bvy veeran B heavy Tom London – “Ol’ Tom” – with 639 films, although Guinnesss Book of Records claims a total the thousands. And to think most of these B-cowhands used to say they were (like the jockeys) merely “scufflin’ for groceries.”
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