You are correct. The remaining Monogram Chans are in a holding pattern at Warner due to an ability to find good quality 35mm prints of some of the titles. I'm not sure where you read about the Bowery Boys but they are also on hold for the same reason. Neither will be forthcoming in 2007.
To make a long story short, Monogram was obviously a low budget operation which went out of business many years ago. Ownership of their films has changed hands multiple times over the years and unfortunately the care of the original prints was not very good. (The same is true of the RKO film library.)
Warner is well aware of how popular the various Monogram series films are and that is why they've literally looked worldwide trying to find good prints of these. Let's hope they will be sucessful!
In the meantime, fans of mystery series films can look forward to Warner's 2008 releases of the Saint/Falcon, Philo Vance, and Perry Mason films of the 30s/40s.
I read about The Bowery Boys on a website called www.dvddrive-in.com There was mention on numerous Allied Artists Films being released on DVD by Warner and The Bowery Boys were mentioned as going to be released soon on DVD?
Is it just me or is The Saint the cream of that crop. George Sanders brought a very real suave flair to Simon Templar that the others just did not rise to. Yes, Tom Conway came close as The Falcon, (with a close approximation of that continental air, I guess it runs in the family) but lacked the name. Again, maybe its just me, but the ST, Saint, Simon TEMPLAR was really "neat". The modern-day Robin Hood persona, perfect. I don't know why The Falcon was called The Falcon. His name was Lawrence wasn't it? As for Philo Vance. I liked him, but didn't love him. Like The Falcon, he seemed like a Saint copy to me, with even less of that sauve wa fare (I have no idea how to spell that)
