In 1967, prominent lawyer F. Lee Bailey had a short-lived 30-minute interview program, "Good Company", on ABC-TV in America in which he would interview prominent people. In this episode, he went to the London home of Sean Connery and got the 36 year-old actor to discuss the James Bond films in-depth. In fact, it's probably the most extensive interview about 007 Connery ever gave. By this point, he was eager to move on and informed Bailey that the recently-released "You Only Live Twice" would be his last Bond film. (As we all know, he did return for two more films between 1971 and 1983.) The interview takes place in Connery's billiard room but, amusingly, he obviously had purchased the billiard table from a local establishment and it requires inserting coins to play for a twenty-minute session. Connery speaks candidly about the pluses and minuses of the films, his satisfaction with making "The Hill" and "A Fine Madness" and his frustration with film producers in general. It must be pointed out that Connery and Bond producer Cubby Broccoli would later reconcile shortly before Broccoli's death in 1996, when the two engaged in a sentimental phone conversation. Broccoli had always said that the only thing he had "done" to Sean Connery was make him a very wealthy man. Nevertheless, it's clear from the interview that in 1967, Connery was not pleased with the contract he had for the Bond films.
It should be noted that the footage seen here, presented the Historic Films web site, is from a raw cut of the interview. It involves two sessions with Connery responding to essentially the same questions twice, though his answers vary quite a bit in some instances.