‘Last Stop Larrimah’ doc investigates missing person — in town of 11 residents
nypost.comAustralian outback town, where there’s no cellphone service or police station — but there is a local crocodile, a bar and just under a dozen eccentric residents including Fran Hodgetts, known for her prickly attitude and her pies.
The documentary dives into the town’s history, the sharp-tongued residents’ various squabbles and the missing persons cold case of Paddy Moriarty, 70, who vanished in December 2017 along with his dog, prompting a police investigation.“Early on, I showed [footage] I had to an Australian person.
And he was like, ‘How did you get these people to talk to you?’ I know this from experience, my dad was an old Australian guy who didn’t share much,” Tancred told The Post. “Once I got there, I think it just took them looking me in the eye.
Once they got to know me, they were welcoming.”“It got to the point where I could walk around town, knock on anyone’s door [and] they would be like, ‘Thomas, come in, have a cup of tea!’”“I knew I didn’t want it to be a generic true crime [documentary], where it’s just spooky the whole time,” he said. “The thing I’m thankful for is that these residents are colorful people, and they’ve got lots of great stories, and they love to sit down and they call it ‘spin a yarn.'”Interviews with residents — and footage of Moriarty — show that depending on who you talk to, he was an affable rascal or a menace who might have even been an arsonist.
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