Smokey is the main antagonist of the 1999 film adaptation of Stuart Little. He is a thuggish and cruel Chartreux cat who works as an associate of Snowbell. He is the leader of a gang of Mafia-like alley cats all bent on killing Stuart Little.

He was voiced by Chazz Palminteri, who also played Primo Sidone in Analyze This, Buster in Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure, Mr. Walken in Little Man, Perry Cannavaro in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Manfredi Sinatra in Law & Order: Organized Crime, and Sonny LoSpecchio in a Bronx Tale.

Personality[]

Smokey is a vicious, predatory, and cruel alley cat. A born leader by nature, he is fiercely protective of his gang. Although he does reciprocate their loyalty, he gets very easily aggravated and irritated by the other cats under him, especially Monty. Smokey views his own species as superior to all others. Although he does not take house cats particularly seriously viewing them as pitiful compared to cats living in the streets. Despite this, however, in certain circumstances, he will assist a house cat if the problem is serious enough in his eyes. When he hears the idea of Snowbell being the pet to the mouse Stuart Little he is utterly disgusted and agrees to help him get rid of the mouse. In spite of sharing some respect for Snowbell by the end of the movie he resorts to attempting to kill him after he turned against the gang by helping Stuart.

Biography[]

Smokey first appears when his second in command Monty introduced his best friend Snowbell to him after the latter found himself with Stuart Little as his new master. Despite Monty finding the situation funny, Smokey is completely outraged and disgusted, but agrees to help Snowbell to get rid of Stuart. He formulates this plan by first starting to find a way of getting Stuart out of the house, by cornering a mouse couple known as the Stouts and forcing them to be his pawns in his plan. Smokey blackmails the Stouts into posing as Stuart's real parents and arrange for them to travel to the Little House to pick him up and bring Stuart to him, much to despair of the Little family and brief happiness of Snowbell. Three days later, however, Mr. and Mrs. Little learn from Ms. Keeper that the Stouts were not Stuart's real parents as it was revealed that his real ones died in an accident years ago. Smokey then decides to move to plan B: he and his gang will find and kill Stuart the same night.

After Mr. Stout is told about the plan, he and his wife guiltily reveal the truth to Stuart and urge him to flee from the cats' wrath. Stuart states he'll go home but Mr. and Mrs. Stout object, stating that Smokey and the cats are everywhere in the city hunting Stuart and he could likely get lost, but they quickly agreed. Stuart leaves as the Stouts wish him good luck.

Smokey and his gang finally confront Stuart and chase him through the city park and the sewers. Eventually, Stuart manages to escape from them and arrives at the Little House (just seconds after the family has left to search for him), only to be greeted by a deceptive Snowbell who lies to him that they were happy he was gone, pointing to Stuart's empty face on the family photo (which they actually used for his lost posters) and Stuart leaves, heartbroken. As soon as he's gone, Snowbell, upon having realized the error of his ways, immediately regrets his actions.

A miserable Stuart returns to the park to make it his new home before Smokey sends Monty to fetch Snowbell. However, Snowbell winds up having a change of heart and confessed the truth to Stuart and attempted to get them both out of there, causing them to be discovered. An impatient Smokey decides to kill them both after Snowbell reformed. The two attempt to flee, but Smokey corners Stuart on a tree branch and prepares to lower him down in an attempt to feed him to his gang. Thankfully, Snowbell intervenes and snaps the branch, causing all of Smokey's minions to fall into a pond. Enraged, Smokey prepares to move in for the kill against Snowbell before Stuart intervenes by whacking Smokey in the face with another tree branch, knocking him off guard and causing him to fall in the pond below. Humiliated, soaking wet and freezing cold, Smokey runs off, only for him to encounter two large stray dogs off-screen and was never seen again.

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Trivia[]

• Smokey's personality is based on the original version of Snowbell while his appearance appears to be based on that of the Angora Cat, both from the original 1945 novel.
• The cat who portrayed Smokey was also prominently featured in Girl, Interrupted as a cat named Ruby. This is likely because both movies were in production at Columbia Pictures at roughly the same time.

External Links[]

• Smokey on the Stuart Little Wiki

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Villains

Novel Stuart Little (1945): Snowbell | Angora Cat Movies Stuart Little (1999): Alley Cats (Smokey, Monty, Lucky, Red & Unnamed Gray Cat) Stuart Little 2 (2002): Falcon Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005): The Beast