Paratroopers Fly East (1956)

Blackbushe Airport, Amman, Jordan. A mass airlift carries paratroopers to Cyprus as the trouble mounts in Jordan, Britain’s protégé kingdom in the Middle East. LS. Troops entering aircraft (title super over). LS. Group of troopers, pan to plane taking off. GV. Crowd in street round motor car in town of Amman. SCU. Major General Glubb Pasha, & CU. GV. Town from hill, two mules in foreground. CU. Arab soldier. SCU. Group and King Hussein of Jordan (Succeed to throne 1952) looking, pan down to two Arab soldiers with machine gun. CU. King looking. SCU. Troops sitting on ground assembling rifles. CU. King with Glubb Pasha walking towards camera. SCU. Paratroopers jumping out of lorries. GV. Lorries arriving. LS. Line of paratroopers being briefed by pilot. CU. Paratroopers listening. SCU. Tea issue. SCU. Paratroopers drinking and laughing. CU. Cook filling thermostatic vessel. SCU. Group of paratroopers drinking and laughing. SCU. Group of paratroopers talking and smoking. LS. Group of paratroopers under