It was CAV, but so was the later one. It's just that the first nine titles Criterion came out with were first released in the silver jackets with red lettering. I thought they looked kinda cool.
Funny thing. About 20 years back, I was selling some of my LDs, and buying others, on eBay. One of my sales was the MGM/UA LD of The Year of Living Dangerously, which I'd sold to one Maurice Yakowar somewhere in Canada (if memory serves, he was in Guelph, Ontario at the time). While it was...