Be a chambermaid for a bunch of yellow saxophone students."That night during the formal dance party, in a parallel scene, the tenants (hiding behind bushes and trees) peered through he plantation windows and made fun of the rich folks.His appearance with co-star Ingrid Bergman was their first - and last.As a hardened American expatriate, Bogart runs a bar/casino (Rick""sCafe Americain) - a way-station o freedom in WWII French-occupied Morocco, where a former lover (Bergman) who previously ""jilted"" him comes back into his life.The film""s script - written with the backdrop of war in Europe (and the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 and the persecution of Jews) - made timely parallels between the ostracized Jews and the race of mistreated gypsies (Romani peoples), and dramatically showed the schism between the two socio-economic classes in Paris (the ""haves"" and the ""have-nots"").The bloated 197-minute lengthy film had a production budget of $5.4 million and made $14 million in revenue, and made more internationally and during its US re-releases in 1963, 1970, and 1996 (financial figures are unreliable).