Down to Earth, also known as The Optimist, is a 1917 American comedy romance film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Eileen Percy, and directed by John Emerson.

[1] Bill Gaynor follows Ethel, the girl he loves, to a sanitarium she is staying to recuperate from a nervous break down.

Bill hatches up a plan to save Ethel and the other hypochondriacs from the sanitarium, taking them on his yacht through the ruse of a smallpox scare.

The yacht crashes onto an island, where Bill makes the invalids work for their own food and where they all overcome their illnesses.

Two months later, Charles discovers that Palm Beach is actually in the valley below them, and he escapes the camp.