Beauty Smith (Disney)

"Okay, wolf. Come on. I want you to get mad! I want you to win! Do you understand me!?! Do you understand!?!"

- Beauty Smith torturing White Fang.

Beauty Smith is the main antagonist of Disney's 1991 live-action film White Fang. He is a mean-spirited crook who gets Grey Beaver addicted to alcohol so that he can buy White Fang and train him to become a fighting dog. He is the boss of Luke and Tinker.

He was portrayed by James Remar, who also played Albert Ganz in the 1982 film 48 Hrs.

Role in the film
As Jack Conroy arrives in the town of Skagway, he tells Beauty of his search for prospector Alex Larson. Beauty and his companions direct the boy to the Chilkoot Pass. The three men surround Jack and steal his money, but he is undaunted and makes his way to the pass.

As Grey Beaver and White Fang arrive in Klondike City, they encounter Beauty and his fighting dog, Buck. While Grey Beaver offers animal pelts to a storekeeper, Beauty instigates a fight between the two dogs and White Fang wins.

When Grey Beaver emerges from the store, Beauty demands compensation for his injured dog, forcing the chief to surrender White Fang. Following a training regimen of taunting and abuse, Beauty and his henchmen enter White Fang in his first fight. He kills his opponent and continues undefeated through numerous fights. Jack and Alex come upon a dogfight in which White Fang is pitted against a pit bull owned by Beauty’s archrival, Sykes. A police raid drives the spectators away as White Fang’s opponent grabs him by the throat. Jack pries the dogs apart with a crowbar, then claims White Fang as restitution for the money he lost to Beauty months earlier. Alex holds Beauty at gunpoint, compelling him to relinquish the dog.

As Jack and White Fang take a sample to the assayer in Klondike City, Luke informs Beauty and Tinker, and they follow Jack back to the mine. The next morning, Beauty and Tinker open fire on the cabin and attempt to burn it down. White Fang attacks Tinker, who accidentally discharges his gun, wounding Luke. After White Fang subdues Beauty, Jack and Alex take the villains prisoner and force them into town where they are arrested.

Personality
Beauty Smith is an extremely greedy, brutal, violent, aggressive, selfish, shameless, cruel, psychotic and abusive dogfight enthusiast who abuses White Fang to fight dogs. He gets Grey Beaver addicted to alcohol so that he can buy White Fang and trains him to become a fighting dog. He inflicts torment and pain on White Fang as a way of padding his own pocket, which drives the wolfdog mad with rage and sets him loose on other twisted beasts for the amusement of callous onlookers. He has already established that he has no qualms about robbery, theft and dog-fighting. He proceeds to establish that he is not beyond killing and claim-jumping either when he and his two henchmen attack Jack and Alex and set their cabin on fire.

Quotes
"Careful, boy! You could be his breakfast. (laughs as he kicks Buck's cage) (Jack: Hey, don't do that!) Why not? He's mine. I shipped him all the way from San Francisco. He was a family dog. I'm gonna teach him to fight. A good fighting dog could make a lot of money up here. Hey, you up here for the gold? (Jack: You got that right.) It's out there, just waiting for somebody to pick it up! Here are friends of mine. Luke, Tinker. Didn't get your name. (Jack: Jack.) Jack. What's your hurry? (Jack: Have you guys ever heard of a guy named Alex Larson?) Alex Larson? He's my old pal! (Luke: Practically brothers. Why, Beauty here saved Alex's life.) He'd do the same for me. (Jack: Back off! You fellas really don't know Alex Larson, do you?) You can't fool these city boys. Nah, we don't know him. But we could find him. He's a gold man, and who ain't up here? He'd be his way up the golden staircase. (Jack: Golden staircase?) (Luke: Chilkoot Pass. About 2-3 miles outside of town. You'll need help hauling the gear to the top.) (Luke pushes Jack while Beauty pickpockets him) (Jack: I said back off!) Easy. Sorry. We didn't mean to crowd you, boy. Good luck to you, Jack!"

- Beauty Smith torturing Buck and robbing Jack.

"(Tinker: Holy biscuits! Look at that dog!) That ain't no dog, you idiot. That's a wolf. Come on, let's go. Take him down there. Let's see what happens."

- Beauty Smith about to make White Fang fight Buck.

"Damn. I want that animal."

- Beauty Smith after seeing White Fang defeat Buck.

"Look what your wolf has done to my dog here. Who's gonna pay for the damages? You know it's illegal to bring wolves in town, don't ya? Luke, go find us a Mountie. He'll straighten us up. (Grey Beaver: Wait! Here.) (Grey Beaver hands over a wolf pelt to Beauty Smith) Not interested in furs, Chief. I'll take that wolf out of your hands. (Grey Beaver: No. He's not for sale.) That's too damn bad, 'cause now you're gonna spend some time in jail. Go find him, Luke. (Grey Beaver: No! How much.) You know something, Chief? You're shrewd."

- Beauty Smith blackmailing Grey Beaver for White Fang.

"Wolf, don't you let me down. Get mad! Get mad! Get in there and kill him. You understand? Come on!"

- Beauty Smith telling White Fang to defeat Sykes' dog.

"It's a pleasure taking your money, Sykes. (Sykes: I'll be back, Smith.) Next time, bring a live dog."

- Beauty Smith to Sykes.

"Come on, wolf. Get up! Get up! (Sykes: It's over.) Not yet, it ain't! Come on, wolf! Get up and fight!"

- Beauty Smith abusing White Fang to get up before Jack stops him.

"Hey, kid! Hey! Kid, that's my wolf! (Jack: He was. I paid for him when you robbed me in Skagway, remember?) Oh yeah! (Luke: Easy.) (Alex: You stay.) Hey you two. Keep an eye out for me. This ain't finished yet!"

- Beauty Smith as Jack buys White Fang from him.

"Get him off! Get him off of me!"

- Beauty Smith's last words.

Trivia

 * Although he isn't given much screen time, he is still the main antagonist, because he had bigger plans than anyone else.
 * In the book, Grey Beaver actually wanted to sell White Fang to Beauty Smith after becoming addicted to alcohol.
 * His former fighting dog is based very loosely on the protagonist from Jack London's 1903 novel The Call of the Wild.