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Down to Earth
AKA The Optimist in the USA
(1917) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by John Emerson

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks [Bill Gaynor], Eileen Percy [Ethel], Gustav von Seyffertitz [Dr. Jollyem], Charles P. McHugh [Dr. Small], Charles Gerrard [Charles Riddles], William H. Keith [Mr. Carter], Ruth Allen [Mrs. Fuller Jermes], Fred Goodwins [Jordon Jimmy], Florence Mayon [Mrs. Phattson Oiles], Herbert Standing [Mr. A.D. Dyspeptic], David Porter [Mr. Coffin], Bull Montana [wildman]

Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Artcraft Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Douglas Fairbanks. Scenario by Anita Loos and John Emerson, from a story by Douglas Fairbanks. Cinematography by Victor Fleming and Harry Thorpe. Intertitles by Anita Loos. / © 9 August 1917 by Artcraft Pictures Corporation [LP11227]. Released 12 August 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1097.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Accidents: Shipwrecks - Yachts

Listing updated: 15 February 2007.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1097; Limbacher-Feature p. 67.

Home Video: DVD.

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