{{short description|1923 film}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = Battling Bates | image = File:Battling Bates lobby card.jpg | caption = | director = Webster Cullison | producer = Ashton Dearholt | writer = Daniel F. Whitcomb | starring = Edmund Cobb<br />Florence Gilbert<br />Ashton Dearholt | cinematography = | studio = Ashton Dearholt Productions | distributor = Arrow Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1923|12|15}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent<br />English intertitles }} '''''Battling Bates''''' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Webster Cullison and starring Edmund Cobb, Florence Gilbert and Ashton Dearholt.<ref name="AFI">{{cite book |date=1997 |editor-last=Munden |editor-first=Kenneth W. |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1 |publisher=University of California Press |orig-date=1971 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C |isbn=0-520-20969-9 }}</ref>

==Plot== Fred Porter is U.S. Secret Service agent on the trail of a gang of outlaws.

Entering a cattle community as a stranger, Porter rescues a young rancher from an ambush. It seems that a jealous woman, rejected by the ranger who has been wooing another in town, has sent her henchmen out to kill him.

The culprits happen to be members of the same gang that Porter has been tracking.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Langman |first=Larry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-40mFfGB4VMC |title=A Guide to Silent Westerns |date=1992 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-27858-7 |language=en}}</ref>

==Cast== * Edmund Cobb as Fred Porter * Florence Gilbert * Ashton Dearholt

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==External links== * {{IMDb title|0127452}}

Category:1923 films Category:1923 Western (genre) films Category:Films directed by Webster Cullison Category:Arrow Film Corporation films Category:American silent Western (genre) films Category:1923 English-language films Category:1923 American films Category:English-language Western (genre) films Category:American silent feature films

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