Top Gun was the biggest movie in America in 1986. Fighter jets, Tom Cruise, a soundtrack that would not quit.
The film that finished behind it cost $8.8 million and was Australian.
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It Opened Here 40 Years Ago Today
Crocodile Dundee reached US theaters on Sept. 26, 1986. Australia had already had it since the end of April.
Paul Hogan played a bushman from the Northern Territory who gets talked into a trip to New York. He’d co-written it, too. Nobody in America knew who he was. He was a television comic at home.
The Numbers Got Silly
It made $174.8 million in the United States over its run. Worldwide it finished at $328.2 million, which is about 37 times what it cost to make.
Hogan won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a musical or comedy. The screenplay, which he wrote with Ken Shadie and John Cornell, got an Academy Award nomination. He lost that one to Hannah and Her Sisters.
One Film Beat It That Year
In 1986, Top Gun made $171.8 million at the US box office and Crocodile Dundee made $129.6 million.
Top Gun had been in theaters since May. Crocodile Dundee had been out about three months. On that same chart The Karate Kid, Part II was third at $115.1 million, Rodney Dangerfield’s Back to School fourth at $91.3 million and Aliens fifth at $85.2 million.
Hogan Married His Co-Star
Linda Kozlowski played the reporter who brings him to New York. She’d trained at Juilliard and come up on Broadway. She’s 68 now and living quietly.
She and Hogan met on that set in 1985 and married in 1990. They divorced in 2014.
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