China Venture is a 1953 American adventure war film directed by Don Siegel and starring Edmond O'Brien, Barry Sullivan and Jocelyn Brando.

The plot concerns an American patrol sent into South China during World War II to rescue an important prisoner held by Chinese guerrillas.

The picture closes with documentary footage of a mushroom cloud, suggesting the Americans resort to atomic warfare to defeat Japan.

O’Brien's and Sullivan's determination to do their job is not presented as an outgrowth of any abnormal personality trait…The company is not doomed, simply threatened by the progression of events.

[6]Kass adds that “the only woman present (Jocelyn Brando) is responsible for saving the admiral's life and is neither seductive nor fatal, rather the opposite, while retaining her femininity.”[7]