Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss

Movie
German title	Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss
Original title	Crocodile Dundee
Country of production	Australia
original language	English
Publishing year	1986
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Peter Faiman
script	John Cornell ; Paul Hogan ; Ken Shadie
production	John Cornell
music	Peter Best
camera	Russell Boyd
cut	David Stiven
occupation
	Paul Hogan : Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee; Linda Kozlowski : Sue Charlton; John Meillon : Walter Reilly; Reginald VelJohnson : Gus; David Gulpilil : Neville Bell; Mark Blum : Richard Mason; Michael Lombard : Sam Charlton; Ritchie Singer : Con; Maggie Blinco : Ida; Steve Rackman : Donk; Gerry Skilton : Nugget; Terry Gill : Duffy; Peter Turnbull : Trevor; Christine Totos : Rosita; Graham 'Grace' Walker : Angelo; David Bracks : Burt (Roo Shooter); Brett Hogan : Peter (Roo Shooter); Irving Metzman : doorman;
chronology
	Successor → ; Crocodile Dundee II

Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss (Original title: Crocodile Dundee ) is an Australian comedy film from 1986 . The title role is played by Paul Hogan .

content

The American journalist Sue Charlton from New York City travels to Walkabout Creek in the Northern Territory in Australia to meet Mick "Crocodile" Dundee, from whom she has read adventurous stories about a victorious battle with a crocodile . When he travels with her through the bush, Sue gets to know and love the country and its people. Fascinated, she invites the hillbilly Mick to take her to New York. There he has to learn how to survive in the “urban jungle” and his lack of knowledge of city life causes numerous misunderstandings.

The film is a modern twist on the fable of the town mouse and the field mouse. Paul Hogan also pokes fun at the quirks of his Australian compatriots. The linguistic peculiarities due to the Australian dialect, which takes getting used to, are largely lost in the German dubbed version, since all participants are synchronized in High German .

background

Mick Dundee was modeled on Rodney Ansell , who was killed in a police shootout in 1999.
Paul Hogan had his first leading role in this film.
In 1990 Hogan married his film partner Linda Kozlowski .
The song Live It Up by the band Mental as Anything again reached high chart positions in Europe thanks to the film.
Crocodile Dundee grossed $ 328 million worldwide.

Reviews

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IMDb

“A sympathetic old-fashioned comedy that the Australian television star Paul Hogan has written for himself. The punch lines, which are primarily derived from the constellation 'spoiled party girl in the jungle' or 'nature boy at the cocktail party', are of lovable simplicity and never disturb the harmonious flow of a well-made family film. Nevertheless, even the experts were surprised that this was a global success (...) "

- Dieter Krusche, Jürgen Labenski in Reclam's electronic film lexicon (CD-ROM), Reclam, Stuttgart 2001

"Wonderfully dry humor and sometimes almost poetic comedy."

- Evening newspaper , Munich

"The straightforwardly told, amusing story cleverly confronts the set pieces of the adventure genre with contemporary phenomena that are difficult to understand simply, which gives the story a cheerful, appealing note."

- Lexicon of international film