The Best Pair of Legs in the Business is a 1973 British comedy-drama film directed by Christopher Hodson and starring Reg Varney, Diana Coupland and Lee Montague.

[7] Clyde Jeavons wrote in The Monthly Film Bulletin: "In adapting his sixty-minute television play for the larger screen and a longer running time, Kevin Laffan has managed both to broaden and coarsen it, with the result that its central theme – the bitterness of the burnt-out comic – has shifted frustratingly out of focus.

In order to excite compassion, 'Sherry' Sheridan (the Archie Rice of the Butlin belt) should, like Osborne's seedy hero, hold the stage in every sense; instead, the film dissipates our involvement with him by over-indulging some misguided attempts at humorous social observation. ...

Backed by some quietly expert playing from Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, the film's one redeeming feature is Reg Varney's there-but-for-the-grace-of-God performance in the role he created on television.

The part is clearly tailor-made; and whether he is camping it up for the campers, sagging like a sack behind the scenes or fantasising about his mythical Royal Command appearance, he manages – wherever script and direction allow – to be both more moving and more convincing than even Olivier in the Osborne role.

"[9] In ABC Film Review, Vincent Firth wrote: "I honestly felt that Varney’s Sherry was superior to Olivier’s Archie, and that I was witnessing the arrival of a great character actor who would seem to have a tremendous future in emotional and finely-balanced portrayals.