When the colonel is dressing down the sergeants three, Fairbanks offers the explanation that what they bought was like something. Singali? Does anyone have an idea or, even better, an explanation? Thank you.
shareCutter (Cary Grant in a wonderful role where he plays well below his real IQ) bought a map allowing them all to dive into LAKE Singali (which probably didn't exist) for emeralds (which certainly didn't exist). Ballantine (Fairbanks) is unwilling to let his friend take the fall for what the Colonel calls this "crack-brained idiocy" by himself, so he says "Well, Sir---WE---bought a map." (Watch Victor McLaglen's expression when Fairbanks says this. It's a lovely moment in the film.)
shareTHANK YOU! LOL Man, that's been bugging me for something like 40 years. Fairbanks' accent LAIK Singali . . . what I, with my uncouth American accent would call, in all my ignorance, LAKE Singali. Got it. Thanks. I can die easy now.