Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal at the 1969 Oscars Credit: ABC Photo Archives One of the things that annoyed Roald Dahl about Sean Connery was that he never got his round in. During the summer of 1966, Dahl was in Japan for the filming of You Only Live Twice, the new James Bond movie he had adapted – very loosely – from Ian Fleming’s novel. The shoot was based for a time around the city of Kagoshima in the country’s sweltering south, and at the end of the day the cast and crew would relax with a cold beer on set. Connery joined in with the drinking but, as Dahl quickly noticed, left the business of paying to other people.