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Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee remains the most commercially successful Australian film ever made, with Paul Hogan’s iconic Mick Dundee at the heart of the film.  It opened in Australian cinemas on 24 April 1986...
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Darwin time capsule
Discover the history of Darwin, Northern Territory through these items from the NFSA collection.
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Selling Mick Dundee
Crocodile Dundee was a huge international hit. How was it marketed in different countries?
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Crocodile Dundee 30th anniversary
It's been thirty years since Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee charmed audiences worldwide with his laconic humour.
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Crocodile Dundee: Live It Up
The wistful and yet danceable song ‘Live it Up’ by Australian band Mental As Anything provides the soundtrack for a very 80s party scene in New York in Crocodile Dundee. Propelled by the popularity...
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John Bowring - making the knife for Crocodile Dundee
The film’s most famous joke 'That’s not a knife…’ relies on the impressive bowie knife created by film armourer John Bowring. In this oral history excerpt Bowring tells the story behind the making of...
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John Bowring on making the knife for the film, Crocodile Dundee (1985)
In this excerpt from an oral history recording, John Bowring talks about making the famous knife for the film, Crocodile Dundee (1985).
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Peter Best's score for Crocodile Dundee
This theme from Peter Best’s score for Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman, 1985) fuses lush, spacious consonances, drawn-out reverberant flute gestures and bedding strings. The flute performs sustained...
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Crocodile Dundee: 'Mind over matter'
En route to crocodile country, reporter Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) asks Mick Dundee (Paul Hogan) about his age and background. Mick’s business partner Wally (John Meillon) tries to embroider the...
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Crocodile Dundee: 'You can't take my photograph'
At a bush camp, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) is at first spooked by the quiet arrival of an Aboriginal man in face paint. Mick (Paul Hogan) introduces Neville (David Gulpilil), a 'real city-boy’,...
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