1972 — Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

After a Harvard law student (Robert F. Lyons) on a drug run falls in love with a California girl (Barbara Hershey), he convinces her to smuggle the next shipment of marijuana to Boston and join him. She gets busted with the drugs at Logan Airport and a crooked Boston cop (Charles Durning) ends up with the stash. The student and his naïve drug kingpin (John Lithgow, in his first credited role) try desperately to get the drugs and the girl back, getting mixed up with a Cuban drug gang in the process.

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Driving Eastbound on Storrow Drive, with the iconic CITGO sign looming in the background.
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Exiting the Callahan Tunnel on the way to Logan Airport.
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Exit to Logan Airport in East Boston. The East Boston Expressway is now 1A; the C1 designation was dropped shortly after this was filmed.
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Robert Lyons and John Lithgow on a stake out. Dealing was Lithgow’s first film.
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This Red Line train makes an unscheduled stop near the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester.
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Charles Durning after exiting the Red Line train.
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Robert Lyons hailing a cab outside of South Station.
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Paul Sorvino, in one of his earliest roles, is the cab driver.
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Merge from the Southeast Expressway onto 128 North In the film, the taxi is headed to Walden Pond. Most drivers would take the Mass. Pike or route 2 west out of Boston toward Concord, not the Southeast Expressway. This stretch had not yet been resigned I-93. This style of sign gantry is no longer in use.

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