Marvin Miller: Michael Anthony

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the study to see Tipton, seated in a high backed chair at his desk, building a house of playing cards. Only Tipton's hands are visible to viewers]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Mike, you ever build card houses?

  Michael Anthony : [Slightly smiling]  I haven't for some time, sir.

  John Beresford Tipton : Men's lives are built like this.

  [Tipton's hands are seen placing cards atop a bottom base of cards] 

  John Beresford Tipton : First, a foundation of habit and training, growing precariously upward

  [Tipton places some more cards on the house] 

  John Beresford Tipton : by layers of ambition and determination.

  [Anthony grows a bit apprehensive as the house of cards grows higher. Tipton places the last card on top] 

  John Beresford Tipton : And there it is.

  [Tipton chuckles and Anthony smiles] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Only sometimes, uh, winds blowing from an unexpected direction can change the entire shape of it.

  [Tipton blows and the house of cards falls] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Let's see

  [Tipton hands an envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : what this windfall will do.

  Michael Anthony : Yes, sir.

  John Beresford Tipton : Watch her closely.

  [Anthony places the envelope into his breast pocket and turns to depart] 

• [first lines] 

  Michael Anthony : [to the viewers]  Oh, hello. My name is Michael Anthony. For some years, I was executive secretary to the late John Beresford Tipton, a man of many millions and many properties - one of them, Silverstone: 60,000 acres of valuable land, his favorite estate, where he lived much of the time, carrying on his innumerable interests and hobbies. His most remarkable hobby was giving away $1,000,000, tax-free, to people he didn't know.