Crocodile Dundee

For the film series as a whole, see Crocodile Dundee (film series). For its main character, see Michael "Crocodile" Dundee.

Crocodile Dundee
Australian theatrical release poster
Directed byPeter Faiman
Screenplay by
Story byPaul Hogan
Produced byJohn Cornell
Starring
CinematographyRussell Boyd
Edited byDavid Stiven
Music byPeter Best
Production
company
Rimfire Films
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 24 April 1986 (1986-04-24) (Australia)
  • 26 September 1986 (1986-09-26) (United States)
Running time
  • 104 minutes (Australia)[1]
  • 98 minutes (International)[2]
Countries
  • Australia
  • United States[3]
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$8.8 million[4]
Box officeUS$328 million[5]

Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian-American 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.

  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.
  4. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p335–338
  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.