Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film about an American reporter who goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
- Directed by Peter Faiman. Written by John Cornell, Paul Hogan, and Ken Shadie.
From the Australian Outback to New York City, Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is about to survive in a different kind of Jungle. (taglines)
Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee
[edit]- [to a New York driver] Get on the right side of the road you pelican!
- No wonder you have so many accidents around here, the steering wheels on the wrong side of the car!
- [sings in the bathtub] If I give my heart to you... [pause] then I'll have none and you'll have two.
- [singing] Up North in the Never Never / Where the land is harsh and bare / Lives a mighty hunter named Mick Dundee / Who can dance like Fred Astaire!
- Well, you see, Aborigines don't own the land. They belong to it. It's like their mother. See those rocks? Been standing there for 600 million years. Still be there when you and I are gone. So arguing over who owns them is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog they live on.
- It's for washing your backside, right?
- [honks horn and yells to water buffalo] "Get out of the way dopey!"
Dialogue
[edit]- Neville Bell: Oh no, you can't take my photograph.
- Sue Charlton: Oh, I'm sorry, you believe it will take your spirit away.
- Neville Bell: No, you got lens-cap on it.
- Richard Mason: New York City, Mr. Dundee. Home to seven million people.
- Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: That's incredible. Imagine seven million people all wanting to live together. Yeah, New York must be the friendliest place on earth.
- Sue Charlton: That croc would have eaten me alive.
- Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: Oh well, I wouldn't hold that against him. [The] thought crossed my mind once or twice.
- [Dundee is threatened by a mugger with a switchblade ]
- Sue Charlton: Mick, give him your wallet.
- Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: What for?
- Sue Charlton: He's got a knife.
- Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: [chuckling] That's not a knife. [draws a large Bowie knife] That's a knife.
- [Dundee slashes the teen mugger's jacket. He and his friends run away]
- Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: Just kids having fun. You alright?
- Sue Charlton: I'm always all right when I'm with you Dundee.
Taglines
[edit]- From the Australian Outback to New York City, Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee is about to survive in a different kind of Jungle.
- He's survived the most hostile and primitive land known to man. Now all he's got to do is make it through a week in New York.
- There's a little of him in all of us.
- The Wizard of Auz hits The Big Apple!
- From the Outback of Australia to urban jungle of New York, there's no wilderness he can't tame!
- Born and raised in the most primitive and hostile territory on Earth, Michael J. Dundee has raised survival to an art form. Now he's about to test himself in a region half as primitive, but twice as hostile: Manhattan Island.
- He came from Down Under...to turn the Big Apple upside down!
Cast
[edit]- Paul Hogan - Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee
- Linda Kozlowski - Sue Charlton
- John Meillon - Walter Reilly
- David Gulpilil - Neville Bell
- Steve Rackman - Donk
- Gerry Skilton - Nugget
- Terry Gill - Duffy
- Peter Turnbull - Trevor
- Christine Totos - Rosita
- Graham 'Grace' Walker - Angelo
- Mark Blum - Richard Mason
- Michael Lombard -Sam Charlton
- Caitlin Clarke - Simone
