The Revolt of Mamie Stover is a 1956 American DeLuxe Color romantic drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Buddy Adler from a screenplay by Sydney Boehm, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie.

The picture stars Jane Russell and Richard Egan, with Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, and Michael Pate, and was filmed in CinemaScope.

She manages to convince him to rekindle their friendship which puts a strain on his relationship with Annalee, who is jealous of the amount of attention that Jim is giving Mamie.

She spends many thousands of dollars purchasing multiple commercial properties cheaply from owners wanting to return to the mainland, soon renting them to the U.S. military.

However, in the September 16, 1955 edition of The Southeast Missourian, Hollywood gossip columnist Erskine Johnson reported "Jane Russell has a date at Fox to discuss the possibility of starring in The Revolt of Mamie Stover.

Other articles mentioned Rita Hayworth & Susan Hayward as contenders for the role of Mamie as well as Lana Turner but an extended vacation prohibited her from taking the part.

[5] An expository opening scene was filmed but deleted for censorship reasons: On a street corner in San Francisco, Mamie is picked up by Howard Sloan, a middle-aged man portrayed by Stubby Kaye, and then detained by police who suggest she get out of town.

One of the police officers is portrayed by Hugh Beaumont who can be seen briefly in the finished film at the beginning before the credits roll and at the very end when Mamie returns to San Francisco.

However, producer Buddy Adler believed audiences would be thrown if Russell, one of the more famous brunettes in Hollywood, went blonde so he had Jane become a redhead.

Marilyn Ann Moss in her biography titled Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director wrote: "Mamie Stover enjoyed good box office and afterward built a large international following."

Bosley Crowther of the New York Times wrote a scathing review and made reference to the film's ad campaign which asked "Why Did Mamie Leave San Francisco?"

Photoplay in its review gave it three out of four stars and wrote "Jane Russell does a spirited job in a story that has both corny and realistic aspects" concluding, "A couple of gay songs enliven the unsavory proceedings.

She is the female equivalent of the implacable and conquering hero who wants to take the world in her fist...The Revolt of Mamie Stover is an unconventional film, typical of Walsh’s last period, when he had even less patience with red tape and was more explicit in his speech, more focused on his filming, as well as the dismantling of the internal mechanisms of the more typical and standardised Hollywood filmmaking, and so of his own cinema."

Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich wrote in 1965: "Very good...fascinating, ambiguously told story of a tough, flamboyant prostitute, her expulsion from San Francisco, her affair with a 'respectable' writer, her rise to wealth on the war in Hawaii.

Gary Tooze writing a review of the Blu-ray release of the film for DVDBeaver website "The Revolt of Mamie Stover has adult themes, female empowerment, war and romance.

The boutique video company Twilight Time released a limited-edition (3,000 units) blu-ray disc of a 4k restoration, which has renewed interested in the film.

Also in May 1956 Capitol Records released a single of the film's two songs "Keep Your Eyes on the Hands" by Tony Tordaro and Mary Johnston and "If You Wanna See Mamie Tonight" with Jane Russell performing the vocals backed by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.