Crocodile Dundee
Short description
A New York reporter, Sue Charlton, travels to the Australian Outback to find the subject of a remarkable survival story: Mick "Crocodile" Dundee, a hunter who lives off the land and is at ease among its dangers. After spending time with him in the bush, she invites him to return with her to New York, and the second half of the film follows his arrival in a city whose rules and customs are entirely foreign to him. His straightforward manner and bush skills serve him well in situations ranging from street encounters to high-society gatherings.
The film was directed by Peter Faiman and written by Paul Hogan, John Cornell and Ken Shadie, with Cornell producing. It was Faiman's first feature; his only other listed directing credit is Dutch, released five years later. Hogan plays Dundee opposite Linda Kozlowski as Sue, with Mark Blum, David Gulpilil, Michael Lombard and John Meillon in supporting roles. Shot for about 5 million dollars, it became a major commercial success, taking roughly 328 million dollars worldwide, a figure far out of proportion to its cost.
On IMDb it holds a 6.7 rating from around 124,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.4 from a much smaller pool of about 2,200. A critics' score of 6.9 from 38 reviews places it slightly above the audience ratings.
What's left behind the scenes
- There are two versions of the film: Australian and American/International. In the international version, many Australian slang words have been replaced with more common expressions, and it is also slightly shorter due to the absence of several scenes.
- In the scene where Mick Dundee is in the hotel bathroom, the film 'Major Dundee' (1965) is playing on television in the other room.
- The original version of the film had a runtime of 104 minutes.
- The enraged wild buffalo that Mick Dundee tames was pumped with sedatives for safety reasons.
- After Mick scares off drunken poachers hunting kangaroos by hiding behind the carcass of a dead kangaroo and shooting from behind it, making them think the shot came from the animal, he turns to the dead kangaroo and says, "Good job, Skippy." This is a reference to the popular Australian children's television series of the 1960s, "Skippy," which tells the story of a boy's friendship with a wild kangaroo of the same name.
- In the American theatrical release, the word Crocodile in the film's title was placed in quotation marks so that some viewers wouldn't think Dundee was actually a real crocodile.
- It was released in Soviet cinemas in 1988 under the title "Dundee nicknamed Crocodile".
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