DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is a 1990 American animated feature film based on the animated children's television series DuckTales. It was released by Walt Disney Pictures on August 3, 1990. Although it was a theatrically released animated film, it was the first feature outside the main Disney animation canon. Produced by the Walt Disney Television Animation satellite studios in France and Australia , the classic Donald Duck cartoon Dude Duck aired in front on the film when it aired in theatres. Scrooge McDuck , Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Webby Vanderquack , and Launchpad... McQuack journey to the Middle East in search of the treasure of Collie Baba and his Forty Thieves . They are accompanied by Dijon, a weasel who is hired as a guide to an ancient temple. Unbeknownst to them, he is under the employ of Merlock , a magician who is as old as human history, and who has a very specific treasure in mind.
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| Release date: | August 3, 1990 |
| Directed by: | Bob Hathcock |
| Runtime: | 74 Minutes |
| Producer: | Bob Hathcock, Jean-Pierre Quenet, Liza-Ann Warren |
| Editor: | Charlie King |
| Music by: | David Newman |
| Screenplay by: | Alan Burnett |
| Estimated budget: | $2,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | DuckTales |
| Genre: | Children's, Fantasy, Animation |