Marvin Miller: Michael Anthony

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the study to see Tipton seated in a high backed chair at his desk, holding a magnifying glass and examining a large coin collection. Only Tipton's hands are visible to viewers]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Numismatics, Mike.

  Michael Anthony : I beg your pardon, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : [Chuckles]  Rare coins. Fascinating hobby.

  Michael Anthony : Yes, sir.

  John Beresford Tipton : [Tipton continues to examine his collection]  You know, it must be one of man's primeval instincts to collect things, Mike. Coins, stamps, miniatures. Why, some people even collect grudges.

  Michael Anthony : Grudges, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Grievances against their fellow man.

  [Tipton hands an envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Let's see if we can devaluate the value of this young man's grudge with a million dollars.

  [Anthony accepts the envelope] 

• Ralph McKnight : [Anthony has just finished issuing the million-dollar cashier's check, along with the explanation, to Ralph McKnight, as the two sit in McKnight's apartment]  What do people usually say when you hand them a million dollars?

  Michael Anthony : Oh, it varies. They sometimes stare at the check for quite a while, just as you're doing.

  Ralph McKnight : I was counting the zeroes.

  Michael Anthony : And then they say, 'Why me? Why give me a million dollars?' Even I can't answer that one. And then they say, 'What's the catch?'

  Ralph McKnight : [Glancing at the document Anthony has placed before him]  And this is the catch?

  Michael Anthony : That paper simply states that you will tell no one, except your wife, where you got the money.

  [Anthony reaches into his coat pocket for a pen] 

  Michael Anthony : If you do, it reverts to the donor.

  Ralph McKnight : [Signing]  On my pay at the dairy, I can't afford a wife.

  [Anthony retrieves the agreement] 

  Ralph McKnight : But I know exactly what I'm going to do with this money.

  [Getting serious] 

  Ralph McKnight : Mr. Anthony, I've got to tell this to someone. You see, it was... it was during the war...

  [the remainder of this program consists of McKnight explaining his revenge plans to Anthony] 

• Michael Anthony : [to the viewers]  This unsuspecting person was a young man named Ralph McKnight.

• Michael Anthony : [to the viewers]  My name is Michael Anthony. And until his death, I was John Beresford Tipton's executive secretary. Now Mr. Tipton was a multibillionaire which alone made him considerably different from most of us. But what made him entirely different from any man who ever lived, so far as I know, was his major hobby of giving a million dollars, taxes paid, to some unsuspecting person. This is Silverstone, John Beresford Tipton's 60,000-acre estate, almost a community in itself. It was here on a certain evening, that he called me toto his private study.