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Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback in the area around "Walkabout Creek" and in New York City.

Inspired by the truelife exploits of Rodney 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 proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Released on September 26, 1986 in the United States, it was the second highest grossing film in the USA in that year and went on to become the No. 1 film worldwide at the box office.


Primary cast:

  • 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


Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

The plot concerns Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (so nicknamed because he allegedly fought a crocodile and lived to tell the tale). He falls for an American journalist who comes to the outback to interview him, and returns with her to New York City, where he is faced with a culture he doesn't understand. Most of the humour is drawn from his attempts to adapt to the unfamiliar features of this society, such as crowds, crime and bidets.

The most famous line from the movie is often misquoted as, "That's not a knife - this is a knife!" The proper quotation is, "That's not a knife. (draws bowie knife) Now that's a knife."


Award wins:

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy – (Paul Hogan)


Award nominations:

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
  • Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay – (Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell)
  • BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenply – (Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell)
  • BAFTA Award for Best Actor – (Paul Hogan)
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - (Linda Kozlowski)


The film's star, Paul Hogan, eventually married his co-star, Linda Kozlowski, and followed up the movie with two sequels, Crocodile Dundee II (1988), which enjoyed a great deal of success, and Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles (2001), which did not.


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The film's star, Paul Hogan, eventually married his co-star, Linda Kozlowski, and followed up the movie with two sequels, Crocodile Dundee II (1988), which enjoyed a great deal of success, and Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles (2001), which did not. It was for this observation that he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789.
Award nominations:. Jenner was a keen observer of nature and he was one of the first to write about the baby cuckoo's action of pushing the eggs and the young of its host out of the nest so that the baby cuckoo was the only one to receive food from its foster parents.
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. Jenner realised the long-term implications of vaccination, and looked forward to the day when smallpox would no longer be a threat anywhere on earth; his dream eventually reached fruition with the global eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s.
. The term virus was introduced in the work aforementioned. 1 film worldwide at the box office. His work was published as "An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Known by the Name of Cow Pox" in 1798. Released on September 26, 1986 in the United States, it was the second highest grossing film in the USA in that year and went on to become the No. Jenner called his method vaccination, as the original infective material came from a cow (vacca is the Latin for cow).

Inspired by the truelife exploits of Rodney 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 proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Jenner then applied the standard smallpox inoculation; the boy was completely unaffected, showing that cowpox had made him immune to smallpox. Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback in the area around "Walkabout Creek" and in New York City. The boy contracted cowpox, and after six weeks, recovered safely. Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - (Linda Kozlowski). On May 14, 1796, he tested cowpox, infecting an eight year old boy named James Phipps in the same manner as used in smallpox inoculation, but using material from a cowpox pustule. BAFTA Award for Best Actor – (Paul Hogan). Cowpox is related to smallpox and Jenner realized that if the folk tradition were true it offered considerable advantages over the use of smallpox in inoculation.

BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenply – (Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell). (It has been theorized that the romantic image of the beautiful milkmaid came from the fact that milkmaids often contracted cowpox, and would thereafter be immune to the disfigurement of smallpox.). Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay – (Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell). There was a local folk tradition amongst those who milked cows, that an infection with the so-called 'cowpox' protected one from contracting smallpox. Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. This made them a risk to any family or acquaintances not already immune. Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy – (Paul Hogan). However, it had two major disadvantages: it was dangerous, and until the infection from inoculation had run its course, the subject was infected, and infectious, with actual smallpox.

Michael Lombard  : Sam Charlton. In Jenner's time, the practice of smallpox inoculation was commonplace in England. Mark Blum  : Richard Mason. Jenner's early education included a spell at Cirencester Grammar School, where one of the school 'houses' was named after him in later years to commemorate his achievements. Graham 'Grace' Walker  : Angelo. Edward Jenner (May 17, 1749 - January 26, 1823) was an English country doctor practicing in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, famous for his work introducing the Smallpox vaccine. Christine Totos  : Rosita. Vaccination.

Peter Turnbull  : Trevor. Vaccine. Terry Gill  : Duffy. Gerry Skilton  : Nugget. Steve Rackman  : Donk.

David Gulpilil  : Neville Bell. John Meillon  : Walter Reilly. Linda Kozlowski  : Sue Charlton. 'Crocodile' Dundee.

Paul Hogan  : Michael J.