The Dry. Director Robert Connolly’s crime drama has taken an impressive $20.4 million at the box office to become the 13th highest grossing Australian film in this country ... closing in on Red Dog and The top earner for 35 years now is still Crocodile Dundee, which took $47.7 million in 1986. But these types of achievements always ignore the impact of inflation. They raise the question: what would be the most successful Australian films in today’s dollars? This masthead took Numero’s box office statistics for more than 1100 Australian films released in the past 50 years and adjusted them for inflation. The result is a new top 25 that reveals how remarkably successful