“You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime” is one of the great song lyrics.
And that song also mentions Bogart.
I love ‘Year of the Cat.’ It’s evoking of a ‘Bogart movie’ is probably most of the reason... it also brings to mind a relationship I had in SF in 1976 when that song was on the radio. Her ‘street name was ‘Mantra’ and she was a mime. Oh what a time that was.