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Crocodile Dundee & When Paul Hogan Ruled the 80s

Everything 80s

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Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee was released on September 26th 1986 but if you're Australian and grew up in the 80s you probably remember it debuting much earlier as it came out there over five months before. On a budget of just eight million dollars Crocodile Dundee made that back in its first weekend. It would go on to gross nearly three hundred and thirty million dollars or when converted for today adjusted for inflation is nine hundred million pounds. The original Aussie version was simply called Crocodileundee with the Crocodile in quotations. Here in North America that was changed to Crocodile Dungee. This was so audiences would know it wasn't a Crocodile

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