by Will Tusher; Motion Picture magazine, April 1972

…Now it can be told (although to what avail?): When Peter Duel went down as an apparent suicide because he was depressed over his drinking, last attended Roy Cumming’s D’Antan Cinematheque in West Hollywood, it was to boost an ecology documentary he’d narrated for free. It was a cocktail screening and Pete was there with Dianne Ray. Bartender and others kept plying him with drinks and he kept imbibling — Ginger Ale…