Disney offered Charles Lane the chance to do a remake with sound and color. They wanted Tom Hanks to star. Hanks loved Sidewalk Stories (1989) but turned down the remake. Lane did not want to make the remake at all.
Charles Lane was inspired by Charles Chaplin's The Kid (1921) and J. Lee Thompson's Tiger Bay (1959).
The main character, "The Artist" works in front of a banner to "Preserve the Greenwich Village Waterfront and Port". Such activity was a real movement of the 1970s through early 2000s, where the long-abandoned cruise liner and shipping piers, and the surrounding terminals and land, was considered for a new highway system, which was later overruled for cost. Later efforts included urban development in the form of office towers, or apartment buildings, which would enrich developers (including one named Donald Trump) who would buy cheaply, develop and rent to the wealthy, pushing out the artists and other who had adopted the location for decades.
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation "Secured groundbreaking landmark designations honoring LGBT, African American, Women's, immigrant, and counter-cultural history, affordable housing developments, and modern architecture."
Due to these and other efforts, including Hudson River Park Trust, the area is preserved and rehabilitated as a series of parks: Hudson River Park, Riverside Park, and The Battery, to benefit all New Yorkers.
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation "Secured groundbreaking landmark designations honoring LGBT, African American, Women's, immigrant, and counter-cultural history, affordable housing developments, and modern architecture."
Due to these and other efforts, including Hudson River Park Trust, the area is preserved and rehabilitated as a series of parks: Hudson River Park, Riverside Park, and The Battery, to benefit all New Yorkers.
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