A New York City street artist rescues a baby girl after her father is murdered. He then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for the child. Ultimately he ends up in a horse drawn chase for the murderers.
[Lane] has had the audacity to make a black-and-white silent movie and make it in the face of today's shamelessly callous values, with a brimming heart and an activist's outraged passion.
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Eleanor Ringel Cater
RTAtlanta Journal-ConstitutionJan 24, 2022
Sidewalk Stories is ultimately more successful as an openhearted novelty by a worth-watching new talent than it is as a work of art... Yet this silent film speaks to us with a distinctive voice.
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Harper Barnes
RTSt. Louis Post-DispatchJan 24, 2022
It takes awhile for the contemporary moviegoer to adapt to the deliberate pace and the lack of dialogue, but Sidewalk Stories becomes harder and harder to resist as it goes along.
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Sean Axmaker
RTStream on DemandJul 9, 2022
[Charles] Lane doesn’t try for silent movie conventions or style and he doesn’t attempt any of Chaplin’s elaborate gags. Instead, he offers a wordless story in poetic pantomime with a backdrop of social commentary...
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