Marvin Miller: Michael Anthony

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Reviewing a case history and speaking to the viewers]  The address on the envelope Mr. Tipton gave me surprised me for a moment. Chris Hall arrived at the little Village of Bells, called Villa de Sinos, deep in the Amazon rubber country of Brazil. Until very recently he had been majoring in tropical planting at Oregon State University. Now he was on his way to his first job on a rubber plantation to work for a man he'd never met.

• Michael Anthony : [Hall enters a hotel lobby and Anthony stops him]  Pardon me, sir. You look like an American.

  Chris Hall : I am. Can I help you?

  Michael Anthony : I don't speak Portuguese very well, and I wonder if you could direct me to the Ochoa plantation?

  Chris Hall : Oh, certainly - I work there. Who do you want to see?

  Michael Anthony : A man named Hall, Christopher Hall.

  Chris Hall : I'm Christopher Hall. What can I do for you?

  Michael Anthony : [the scene shifts to a room at the hotel, a few minutes later]  Whew!

  [Wiping his brow with a handkerchief] 

  Michael Anthony : It's been no fun looking for you in this heat.

  Chris Hall : It must be important.

  Michael Anthony : It is.

  [Opens his briefcase] 

  Michael Anthony : A matter of a million dollars, all yours and tax-free.

  Chris Hall : Are you sure you're feeling all right in this heat, Mister... Mister...?

  Michael Anthony : Anthony is the name.

  [Displaying check] 

  Michael Anthony : Take a look at this check.

  Chris Hall : [Reading the check]  A cashier's check for a million bucks. Who'd want to give me a million dollars?

  Michael Anthony : I'm not at liberty to say.

  Chris Hall : [Getting perturbed]  Is this some kind of a joke? This isn't funny, Mr. Anthony.

  Michael Anthony : [Responding likewise]  Mr. Hall, do you think I'd fly 6,000 miles and tramp through the jungle in this tropical heat just to perpetrate a hoax?

  Chris Hall : What's the catch?

  Michael Anthony : [Displaying a document]  Just sign this simple form. It pledges you never to reveal the source or the amount of this gift; otherwise, the donor has the right to reclaim it.

  [Hall signs the agreement] 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the Silverstone conservatory, where he discovers Tipton splicing an apple plant. Only Tipton's hands are visible to viewers]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Mike, what you see me doing right now is known as grafting, placing this shoot, or scion as it's called, into this apple tree. The process is never entirely predictable, and I can't tell for certain what the results will be,

  [Handing an envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : just as with our next millionaire.

  [Anthony pockets the envelope] 

• [first lines] 

  Michael Anthony : [to the viewers]  My name is Michael Anthony. And until his death, I was executive secretary to a multibillionaire by the name of John Beresford Tipton. My job was fascinating, because one of my tasks was to deliver $1,000,000 as a completely unexpected gift to individuals who were picked by Mr. Tipton. This is Silverstone, Mr. Tipton's 60,000-acre residence. And there one evening, I was told that he wished to see me in the conservatory.