The General’s Daughter

When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.

• Director: Simon West
• Genre:Drama / Mystery / Thriller
• Runtime:112 minutes

Cast

John Travolta : Warr. Off. Paul Brenner
Madeleine Stowe : Warr. Off. Sara Sunhill
James Cromwell : Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell
Timothy Hutton : Col. William Kent
Leslie Stefanson: Capt. Elisabeth Campbell

Chief Warrant Officer Four Paul Brenner, a Vietnam Veteran of the 196th LIB, (John Travolta) is in Georgia masquerading as First Sergeant Frank White at a local army base, to broker an illegal arms trade with a self-proclaimed freedom fighter. While on the base, his car gets a flat tire. Without a lug wrench, a pretty young officer arrives and helps him change the spare. The officer is Captain Elisabeth Campbell (Leslie Stefanson), the base commanding general’s daughter and army captain in psychological operations. The next evening, she is found murdered. Brenner and another warrant officer, Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe) are brought in to investigate, as both are part of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. They find Captain Campbell’s nude body staked down with tent poles, strangled, and presumably raped.

They search Elisabeth’s home off base and find it typical of a career Army officer, with one exception: through a false door in the basement, they find what appears to be a sexual dungeon of sorts, with handcuffs, harnesses, and a camera connected to a VCR. Sunhill goes to their car to make a call from her cell phone, and while Brenner gathers the tapes, he is attacked by a masked figure armed with a steel snow shovel. The culprit manages to disorient Brenner long enough to steal the videotapes. Brenner questions Elisabeth’s close confidante, Colonel Robert Moore (James Woods), who also works in psy ops. Though cordial and somewhat cooperative, Moore is evasive when questioned, and gives an alibi of being in bed asleep at the time of the murder. However, this proves false when Moore’s fingerprints are found on Elisabeth’s dog tags that were found in a plastic trash bag several yards from her body, along with her clothing. Brenner arrests Moore on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and takes him to jail.

Moore is later released by the officer in charge of the jail and restricted to house arrest. Brenner, Sunhill, and base provost marshal, Colonel William Kent (Timothy Hutton), return to Moore’s home and find Moore dead on his couch with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to his forehead. Read more

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