Ferzetti entered one of the busiest periods of his career, featuring in seven films released during 1962. Among these were "Il giorno più corto", directed by Sergio Corbucci, in Giuseppe Bennati's "Congo vivo" alongside Jean Seberg, in Jean Negulesco's American picture, "Jessica", opposite Maurice Chevalier, Angie Dickinson, and Noël-Noël, and in "Le Crime ne paie pas" (US: "Crime Does Not Pay") under director Gérard Oury. Among a large ensemble cast, Ferzetti had a role in Jean Delannoy's "Imperial Venus" (1963), and played the character of Leonardi in Charles Frend and Bruno Vailati's war drama, "Torpedo Bay" (also 1963), alongside Lilli Palmer, James Mason, and Alberto Lupo.