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<ownershipDocument>

    <schemaVersion>X0202</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4/A</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2007-09-27</periodOfReport>

    <dateOfOriginalSubmission>2007-09-27</dateOfOriginalSubmission>

    <notSubjectToSection16>0</notSubjectToSection16>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000878932</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>EQUUS TOTAL RETURN, INC.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>EQS</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001322410</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Denos Kenneth I</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>11585 SOUTH STATE STREET SUITE 102</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2></rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>DRAPER</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>UT</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>84020</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>1</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>1</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>Chief Executive Officer</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Equus Total Return, Inc.</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2007-09-27</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate>
                <value>2007-09-27</value>
            </deemedExecutionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>S</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>189716</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>7.74</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>D</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>1273252</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>I</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
                <natureOfOwnership>
                    <value>See Footnote</value>
                </natureOfOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <remarks>The securities were previously pledged to the Douglass Trust IV FBO Brooke Douglass and the Douglass Trust IV FBO Sam Preston Douglass Jr. as collateral to secure a certain promissory note and transferred to the Douglass Trust IV FBO Brooke Douglass and the Douglass Trust IV FBO Sam Preston Douglass, Jr. in partial settlement of such notes.  The settlement included $1,468,401.84 for the transferred securities and the issuance of additional promissory notes.</remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Kenneth I. Denos</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2007-10-02</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
