The staircases here are often just a series of short steps, leading from one level to another. The transitions and the pans are correspondingly small and graceful. Characters also frequently move around within a location, such as the businessman endlessly fussing around the train station. Ophuls' camera pans back and forth with this man, as he moves restlessly through the crowd. Although at first glance a typical Hollywood movie with a unified plot and characters, Caught has structural similarities to such episodic Ophuls works as La Ronde .
Characters appear and disappear here, just as in the later anthology film.
Often times some of the most interesting characters in Caught appear in just a single scene, such as the psychiatrist. The heroine's girl friend and confidant disappears completely less than half way through the movie, never to be seen again. In La Ronde , characters disappear when their episodes end. These vanishings leave an odd emotional effect there, but they seem even funnier in a narrative work like Caught . Locations too show up, play a major role, then completely vanish again.