Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 romantic action-adventure comedy film directed by Peter Faiman and starring Paul Hogan as the namesake character and American actress Linda Kozlowski as reporter Sue Charlton. 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 it proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September in the United States, it was a critical and commercial success, grossing $328 million, being 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. The two versions of the film are 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 installment in the Crocodile Dundee trilogy, 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.