The Telephone Book is a 1971 American independent sexploitation comedy film[4][5] written and directed by Nelson Lyon and starring Sarah Kennedy, along with Norman Rose, James Harder, and Jill Clayburgh.

She receives an obscene phone call from a stranger (Norman Rose), which fascinates her and sends her on a picaresque adventure through various situations in pursuit of the caller, all of them sexual in one way or another.

[4] Budd Wilkins of Slant Magazine gave the film a rating of 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "a brilliant and lamentably neglected gem of early-'70s underground filmmaking", and declaring the scene in which Alice meets John Smith to be "one of the great satirical set pieces in the history of American cinema.

Club wrote that "dismissing Nelson Lyon's sole directorial outing as a nudie flick does it a major disservice, as it's a gleefully obscene, visually inventive piece of pop-counterculture satire that has more in common with Putney Swope than Deep Throat.

[11] Conversely, Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com gave the film a mostly negative review, calling it "as arousing as a tax audit and funny as jury duty", and "an insufferable grab bag of encounters and staring contests, missing its moon shot to become a triumphant cult experience, whiffing with its allegedly provocative elements.