48 Fun Facts About Crocodile Dundee

In Crocodile Dundee, which animal does Mick mesmerise when it blocks a bush track?

A buffalo named Charlie played the scene and later became a tourist draw at the Adelaide River Inn in the Northern Territory; when he died in 2000 the pub had him stuffed and put on show.

Which actress plays reporter Sue Charlton in Crocodile Dundee?

Linda Kozlowski had a small role in Dustin Hoffman's Broadway Death of a Salesman; he lent her his Malibu beach house while she looked for work in California and recommended her for the film.

Which film alone out-grossed Crocodile Dundee in America in 1986?

Top Gun stayed narrowly ahead in North America, even though Crocodile Dundee, released four months after it, held the number one spot for nine weekends in a row.

Which television director, who had made Paul Hogan's sketch show, was hired to direct Crocodile Dundee?

Peter Faiman had directed The Paul Hogan Show, and Hogan built his first film around the people he already worked with on television, his manager and his co-writer among them.

Rod Ansell, the bushman whose story inspired Crocodile Dundee, shunned his luxury Sydney hotel bed to sleep where?

On the floor, in his bush bedroll, was where Rod Ansell slept when a TV chat show flew him to Sydney to talk about his two months stranded in the wild, and that interview caught Paul Hogan's eye.

In Crocodile Dundee, what is the fictional Northern Territory township where Sue first meets Mick?

Walkabout Creek is fiction, but its pub is real: the outback hotel used for the bar scenes later took the film's name and became a tourist stop as the Walkabout Creek Hotel.

In Crocodile Dundee, who owns Newsday, the newspaper Sue writes for?

Her father, Sam Charlton, owns the paper, though Sue has only told Mick that he sells newspapers; when Mick sees the family's weekend house, she admits he sells a lot of them.

In Crocodile Dundee, what does Mick call the crocodile scar on his leg when Sue asks about it?

'A love bite' is Mick's verdict on the wound; the story that brought Sue out had a crocodile taking half his leg and leaving him to crawl a hundred miles, which he calls a slight exaggeration.

Who is Mick Dundee's business partner back in the Northern Territory?

Wally Reilly, played by John Meillon, laughs off the idea of Mick in a big city until Sue says the paper would pay, then decides that a man should broaden his horizons.

In Crocodile Dundee, who hears Mick's famous line about what counts as a knife?

A street mugger asks Mick for a light, then for his wallet; Sue urges him to hand it over because the youth has a knife, and Mick answers by drawing his own, far bigger one.

In Crocodile Dundee, how does Mick scare off the drunken 'city cowboys' hunting by spotlight?

Has a kangaroo shoot back: Mick makes it look as if one caught in the hunters' spotlight is firing at them, and they flee yelling that it's got a gun while he mutters 'Good one, Skippy'.

Which star of Storm Boy and Rabbit-Proof Fence plays Neville Bell, Mick's friend, in Crocodile Dundee?

David Gulpilil plays Nev, a 'real city boy' who calls the corroboree a drag; when Sue raises her camera he says she can't take his photograph, not for his spirit's sake but because her lens cap is on.

In Crocodile Dundee, what is Sue doing at the water's edge when the crocodile lunges at her?

Filling her canteen is as far as Sue gets after setting off alone to prove she can cope in the bush without Mick; he is close behind and kills the crocodile before it can drag her under.

Burt, the real crocodile who appeared in Crocodile Dundee, spent his last years as an attraction in which city?

Darwin's Crocosaurus Cove kept Burt from 2008 until he died in 2024, thought to be over 90; in 2018 he 'predicted' France's World Cup win there by snapping at the French flag instead of Croatia's.

Which national park supplied most of the wilderness scenery in Crocodile Dundee?

Kakadu and its crocodiles went onto the tourist map with the film, and in 1988 a hotel built in the shape of a giant crocodile opened in the park's township of Jabiru.

In Crocodile Dundee, which landmark New York hotel puts Mick up in a luxury suite?

The Plaza gives Mick a suite so big that he asks Sue how many of them are staying there, and when the bellman waits for a tip he wonders aloud if the room has to be paid for in advance.

In Crocodile Dundee, what does Mick tell Irving the hotel doorman he plans to do next?

Go on walkabout across America is his answer once he believes Sue is engaged to Richard; asked how long he will be gone, he says as long as it takes, and wants the quickest way out of town.

How does Mick reach Sue across the packed subway platform at the end of Crocodile Dundee?

Walks over the crowd: commuters relay Sue's shouted messages down the platform, the last being that she loves him, and Mick, told they are jammed in like sheep, crosses on their heads and raised hands.

In his New York hotel bathroom, what does Mick Dundee first take the bidet for?

A second toilet is his first thought: he calls Sue in to see that 'some nitwit's put two dunnies in here'; she leaves him to work out what it is for, and he shouts his guess down to her from the window.

Which film did Crocodile Dundee overtake to become the highest-grossing film ever in Australia?

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had held the Australian record since 1983; Crocodile Dundee took it in 1986 and kept it until Titanic sailed past twelve years later.

Which UK channel drew 21.8 million viewers to Crocodile Dundee's television premiere on Christmas Day 1989?

BBC One's screening drew the biggest audience on record for a single Christmas Day broadcast, a mark still unbeaten in 2019; the 1986 EastEnders episode remembered for 30 million viewers needed a repeat to get there.

What did Paramount add to the title of Crocodile Dundee for American audiences?

Quotation marks went around 'Crocodile' because the studio feared Americans would expect a swamp-monster film; it also trimmed several minutes and dropped slang that test audiences did not understand.

Which Golden Globe did the film's star win for the role in 1987?

Best Actor – Musical or Comedy went to Hogan at the Golden Globes in January 1987 for playing Mick Dundee, a role he had written for himself.

For which Academy Award was Crocodile Dundee nominated?

Best Original Screenplay was its one Oscar nomination, shared by Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell; they lost to Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters on a night when Hogan was also one of the hosts.

Which two stars shared hosting duties with Paul Hogan at the 1987 Academy Awards?

Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn made up the trio with Hogan; Hawn had co-hosted once before, in 1976, while Chase was asked back to front the following year's ceremony alone.

Before television fame, Paul Hogan worked as a rigger on which structure?

Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger Hogan wrote to the talent show New Faces claiming to be Australia's leading tap-dancing knife-thrower, went on to send up its harsh judges, and walked off with a television career.

Paul Hogan's tourism ads promised a 'shrimp on the barbie'; what do Australians call a shrimp?

Prawn is the word at home; the ad said 'shrimp' because it was written for American viewers, and the campaign made Hogan a familiar face in the US two years before the film.

Which outback town did Paul Hogan falsely give as his birthplace when he first applied to appear on television?

Lightning Ridge was simply the first place that came to mind when Hogan filled in a talent-show application; he was really a city boy, but he says the opal town's people sent him presents all the same.

Which criminals do Mick and Sue face in Crocodile Dundee II?

A Colombian drug cartel led by Luis Rico is the enemy: Sue's ex-husband photographs Rico committing a murder and mails her the pictures before he is killed, so the cartel comes after her.

John Cornell, who directed Crocodile Dundee II, had filled which of these roles on the first film?

Producer John Cornell had steered Hogan's career from the start, as his manager and as his sidekick Strop on television, and he shared the first film's writing credit before taking the director's chair for the sequel.

In Crocodile Dundee II, Mick is offered a job by a mild-mannered friend with which tough-guy name?

Leroy Brown trades on the bad reputation his name carries from the song, but the 'supply business' he whispers about turns out to deal in pens, erasers and office stationery.

In Crocodile Dundee II, what is the name of the large plot of land the hero legally owns?

Belonga Mick, he tells Sue, means Mick's Place: an uncle left him land that takes three or four days to walk across, and he calls it worthless apart from a gold mine he treats as his retirement fund.

Which action sequel opened the same day as Crocodile Dundee II and lost the duel?

Rambo III, one of the costliest films made up to then, opened on the same day, 25 May 1988, yet took $21.2 million in its first six days against $29.2 million for the Australian comedy.

What are Sue's final words in Crocodile Dundee II when Mick asks if she is ready to head back?

"I am home." turns Mick's question around: he means New York, which they fled when her life was in danger, and she means the Territory where he took her to hide.

Where is the third Crocodile Dundee film, released in 2001, set?

Los Angeles needs a stand-in bureau chief for Sue's old newspaper after the last one dies in a suspicious car crash, so she takes the job and Mick turns amateur detective at a film studio.

What is the name of Mick and Sue's young son in the third Crocodile Dundee film?

Mikey, played by Serge Cockburn, wins over his new American classmates with his bush skills, and is on the school roll under his mother's surname because his parents have never got round to marrying.

Which boxer plays himself in the third Crocodile Dundee film, teaching Mick and his son to meditate?

Mike Tyson, found sitting cross-legged in a park, coaches father and son to 'inhale the positivity, exhale the negativity', then has to haul Mick to his feet when his knees lock.

Which film beat the third Crocodile Dundee movie to the Razzie for Worst Remake or Sequel?

Planet of the Apes, Tim Burton's 2001 remake, took the prize, and Charlton Heston, star of the 1968 original, was named worst supporting actor the same night partly for his cameo in it.

Which actor's fake 2018 'Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home' trailers were a Tourism Australia campaign?

Danny McBride played Mick's long-lost American son opposite Chris Hemsworth in the fake trailers, revealed as a Tourism Australia ad during the 2018 Super Bowl; Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Margot Robbie and Ruby Rose also cameoed.

In the 2020 comedy The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, Paul Hogan plays himself on the eve of receiving which honour?

A knighthood for services to comedy is the prize, and the joke is that Hogan, trying to stay out of trouble until the ceremony, stumbles from one public scandal into the next.

Which Japanese carmaker made Paul Hogan the face of its American advertising in the 1990s?

Subaru hired Hogan in 1995 to launch the Outback, a raised station wagon named after the Australian bush, kept him on for at least five years and saw its slumping American sales recover.

In the international cut of Crocodile Dundee, what did a tribal elder reply when Mick asked when he was born?

"In the summertime" is all the elder told him, Mick says; in the cut shown in Australia he instead calls the tribal tale nonsense, says he lost track of birthdays as a child and guesses he is about forty.

Mark Blum, Crocodile Dundee's Richard, played the husband in which Madonna film?

Desperately Seeking Susan cast Blum as a hot-tub salesman whose bored wife slips away to follow a stranger; a year later he was Richard, proposing to Sue in front of a room of dinner guests.

At the start of Crocodile Dundee II, how is Mick fishing in New York Harbor when the police pull up?

With dynamite, he explains, because the New York fish won't take his bait; the officers know him by now and let it go with a shake of the head.

Which actor plays Gus, the chauffeur who drives Mick around New York in Crocodile Dundee?

Reginald VelJohnson's Gus tells Mick he belongs to no tribe; later he wades in to save Mick from a beating and owns up to one after all, the Harlem Warlords.

In the third Crocodile Dundee film, what is the crooked film studio that Mick investigates really smuggling?

Paintings missing from a museum in the former Yugoslavia are passed off as film props; Mick first bets on heroin moulded into their plaster frames, but a police lab finds nothing in them.

The Northern Territory pub in Crocodile Dundee was really in McKinlay, in which state?

Queensland's McKinlay lent its Federal Hotel for the bar scenes; the pub has traded on the film ever since and made national news when it came up for sale.

Which body objected when an American was hired to play Sue in Crocodile Dundee, before giving way?

Actors' Equity Australia objected and then gave way; Hogan held out because, he said, a story about a New York woman needed a real New Yorker, not an Australian doing an accent.