"An enormous Bowie knife whirls through the air and thuds into a wooden bar, sending a shudder of excitement through the cluster of men wearing leather hats, blue jeans, flannelette vests and dirty tees carousing in an outback pub. Bursting through the front door, a man follows the knife, engaged, it seems, in mortal combat with a saltwater crocodile. But the drinkers erupt with laughter as the mad bugger adorned in crocodile teeth and skin wrangles the stuffed beast to the bar."
"Before the beers are poured, however, the man's eyes fall upon a woman. Her clean white shirt, flawless skin and Hollywood beauty so incongruous in this bar of rough and boozy blokes. The man pulls his knife from the wall, saunters over, shoots off a wisecrack and, doffing his hat, introduces himself. Michael J. Crocodile' Dundee, he says, eyes twinkling as he grins, broad and impish, before dragging the blond woman out to the dancefloor."
"So the world was swept off its feet by one of the most iconic characters in the history of Australian cinema in a 1986 film that remains, to this day, the country's highest-grossing film. And, 39 years later, that pub has entered a new chapter one that the parties involved no doubt hope will be more successful than the Crocodile Dundee sequels."
An outback pub scene features a Bowie knife, a man grappling a stuffed crocodile and rough local drinkers erupting in laughter. A cleanly dressed Hollywood-style woman draws the attention of the crocodile-costumed man, who introduces himself as Michael J. Crocodile Dundee before leading her to dance. The Crocodile Dundee film of 1986 became one of Australia's most iconic and highest-grossing movies. The Walkabout Creek hotel in McKinlay, closely associated with that film, recently changed ownership. The new owner is 33-year-old cattleman Angus Brodie, marking a new chapter for the famous pub.
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