Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee
	Australian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Faiman
Screenplay by	Paul Hogan; Ken Shadie; John Cornell;
Story by	Paul Hogan
Produced by	John Cornell
Starring	Paul Hogan; Linda Kozlowski; Mark Blum; David Gulpilil; Michael Lombard; John Meillon;
Cinematography	Russell Boyd
Edited by	David Stiven
Music by	Peter Best
Production; company	Rimfire Films
Distributed by	Hoyts Distribution (Australia); Paramount Pictures (North America); 20th Century Fox (International);
Release dates	24 April 1986 (Australia); 26 September 1986 (United States); 12 December 1986 (UK);
Running time	104 minutes (Australia); 98 minutes (International);
Countries	Australia; United States;
Language	English
Budget	A$8.8 million
Box office	US$328 million

Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee, and American actress Linda Kozlowski as reporter Sue Charlton.^[6] Inspired by the true-life exploits of Rod Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon.

Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September in the United States, it was the highest-grossing film of all time in Australia, the highest-grossing Australian film worldwide, the second-highest-grossing film in the United States in 1986, the highest-grossing non-US film at the US box office ever and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide for the year. There are two versions of the film: the Australian version, and an international version, which had much of the Australian slang replaced with more commonly understood terms, and was slightly shorter. As the first film in the Crocodile Dundee film series, it was followed by two sequels: Crocodile Dundee II (1988) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001), although both films failed to match the critical success of the original.

^ "Crocodile Dundee". Australia: Classification Board. 7 January 1986. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
^ "Crocodile Dundee". United Kingdom: BBFC. 24 September 1986. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
^ "Crocodile Dundee". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p335–338
^ "Crocodile Dundee". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
^ Darnton, Nina (26 September 1986). "Film: 'Crocodile Dundee'". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2010.

[1] "Crocodile Dundee". Australia: Classification Board. 7 January 1986. Archived from the original on 21 December 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2011.

[2] "Crocodile Dundee". United Kingdom: BBFC. 24 September 1986. Retrieved 19 May 2011.

[3] "Crocodile Dundee". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2015.

[stratton2-4] David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p335–338

[mojo-5] "Crocodile Dundee". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

[6] Darnton, Nina (26 September 1986). "Film: 'Crocodile Dundee'". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 August 2010.

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