Starring James Dunn and Joan Woodbury, the film incorporates elements of the horror genre as it follows an ex-private detective who is called in to investigate why a banker has turned into a zombie.

The film was distributed in the United Kingdom under the title Lend Me Your Ear, and later released on home video as A Walking Nightmare.

Banker Walter Craig (Gus Glassmire) has disappeared and his best friend, Ed Moline (Paul McVey) hires Nick Trayne (James Dunn), a retired private detective who now earns a living as a quasi-psychic and "listening ear", to take the case.

The trail leads Nick and Billie – who now work together and are falling in love – to a spooky deserted house rented by a Dr. Carson.

Nick wakes up the members of the estate and asks each to record his or her voice so that Hawkins will be able to hear and identify the mysterious Dr. Carson.

After their arrest, Nick explains their motives: When Craig found out about Tony and Helen's affair, the two knew they could not kill him because Tina would inherit his entire estate.

[10] The Daily News of New York summed up the film as "a run-of-the-mill who-done-it with a portion of horror added to heighten suspense".

The Daily News of New York praised Dunn's comedic talents and his playing the role of a private detective "purely for laughs".

[15] Modern critic Leonard Maltin was less complimentary, writing: "Dunn hams outrageously as a detective trying to find a murderer in a houseful of suspects".

[16] Joan Woodbury was also cited by The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for her "charming" character and "excellent performance as a secretary, as an investigator's aide and as a girl in love".