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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Intrigued by the near-death experience of the rugged hunter, Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee, after a close encounter with a monstrous saltwater crocodile, the New York City reporter, Sue Charlton, travels to Australia, to meet the legend in person. There, in the dusty hamlet of Walkabout Creek and the formidable outback, dangerous situations and unforeseen romantic complications await; however, Sue already knows that nothing compares to the urban jungle of the great Big Apple. So, like a fish out of water, Mick leaves Australia for the first time in his life for Manhattan's concrete maze, where he comes face-to-face with the complexities of modern life. But, will the unpretentious bushman ever adapt to the big city? Today on Buzzn The Tower we go down under, throw a shrimp on the barbie, and play with dead kangaroos as we visit the 1986 blockbuster, Crocodile Dundee. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the dingo that ate my baby, Max Sanders. And with that...
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0:00.0 | I think this is my single favorite fact of the entire movie. |
0:12.8 | I didn't know it until I got to it, but I love this. |
0:15.4 | Is that a trilogy? |
0:16.2 | No, that is my least favorite part. |
0:19.4 | Inaccess's lead singer, Michael Hutchins, |
0:22.3 | was one of the film's investors among 1,400 other investors, |
0:27.0 | including brokers, wealthy cricketers, you know, cricket, |
0:30.7 | sport, I don't get it, but yeah, the Queensland investment |
0:35.8 | bank of Paul Morgan and company underwrote 7.1 million |
0:40.9 | needed to make the movie. |
0:42.4 | Hogan and Cornell added 600,000 of their own money, |
0:45.8 | and ultimately the film made over $300 million. |
0:48.3 | It's insane. |
0:49.2 | I fell in love with Australia because of this movie. |
0:51.6 | So take me back to 86. |
0:53.6 | This was the second highest-grossing movie of that time. |
0:56.4 | Yeah? |
0:57.4 | Of the 86? |
0:58.4 | Of that you're only beat by Top Gunness. |
0:59.4 | Yeah. |
1:00.4 | Welcome to Buzz in the Tower, a podcast dedicated to the movies of the 1980s. |
1:09.6 | Prepare to be stuffed in our delorean and taken on a trip through the best decade of film |
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